Thrity Umrigar

Thrity Umrigar is an Indian-American journalist, critic, and novelist.

Early life
Umrigar was born in Mumbai, India to a Parsi family, and relocated to the United States at the age of 21.

Career
Umrigar received a Bachelor of Science from Bombay University, an M.A. From Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in English from Kent State University.

She has written for The Washington Post and the Cleveland Plain Dealer and The Huffington Post and regularly writes for The Boston Globe's book pages. She is the Armitage Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She is active on the national lecture circuit.

Works

 * Bombay Time (2001)
 * First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood (2004)
 * The Space Between Us (2006)
 * If Today Be Sweet (2007)
 * The Weight of Heaven (2009)
 * The World We Found (2012)
 * The Story Hour (2014)
 * Everybody's Son (2017)
 * When I Carried You In My Belly (2017)
 * The Secrets Between Us (2018)
 * Binny's Diwali (2020)
 * Sugar In Milk (2020)
 * Honor (2022)
 * The Museum of Failures (2023)

Recognition

 * 2000 - Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard University
 * 2006 - Finalist for the PEN/Open Book award
 * 2009 - Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature
 * 2013 - Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian General Fiction category for her novel, The World We Found