Salman Rushdie is the author of many acclaimed novels, including
Midnight's Children (winner of the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), G
rimus,
Shame,
The Satanic Verses,
Haroun and The Sea of Stories,
The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, and
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights-and a collection of short stories:
East, West. He has also published works of nonfiction, including Joseph Anton (a memoir of his life under the fatwa issued after the publication of
The Satanic Verses),
The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and
Step Across This Line-and co-edited the anthologies,
Mirrorwork and
Best American Short Stories. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.
