Bharati Mukherjee
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Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, 1940 – January 28, 2017) was an Indian American writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
She was the author of a number of novels and short story collections, as well as works of nonfiction.
Early life and education
Of Indian Hindu Bengali Brahmin origin, Mukherjee was born in present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India during British rule. She later travelled with her parents to Europe after Independence, only returning to Calcutta in the early 1950s. There she attended the Loreto School. She received her B.A. from the University of Calcutta in 1959 as a student of Loreto College, and subsequently earned her M.A. from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1961. She next travelled to the United States to study at the University of Iowa. She received her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1961 and her PhD in 1969 from the department of Comparative Literature.
Career
Mukherjee and her partner, Clark Blaise, returned to the United States after more than a decade of living in Montreal and Toronto, Canada. In "An Invisible Woman," a 1981 issue of Saturday Night, she discussed the decision. Days and Nights in Calcutta (1977) was co-authored by Mukherjee and Blaise. They also wrote The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy, which was released in 1987 (Air India Flight 182).
Mukherjee taught at McGill University, Skidmore College, Queens College, and City University of New York before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley.
Mukherjee received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1988 for her book The Middleman and Other Stories. Mukherjee said she regarded herself as an American writer rather than an Indian expat writer in a 1989 interview with Ameena Meer.
Mukherjee died as a result of rheumatoid arthritis and takotsubo cardiomyopathy on January 28, 2017 in Manhattan at the age of 76. She was saved by her husband and son. Bart's older brother predeceased her in 2015.
Awards and honors
- 1988: National Book Critics Circle Award (The Middleman and Other Stories).
- Mukherjee was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) from Whittier College in 2013.