| Anita Desai  AKA Anita Mazumdar
Born: 24-Jun-1937
Birthplace: Mussoorie, India
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Asian/Indian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist Nationality: India
Executive summary: Cry, the Peacock Father: (Bengali)
Mother: (German, Jewish)
Husband: (four children)
Daughter: Kiran Desai (author, b. 1971)
High School: Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School, Delhi
University: BA English, University of Delhi (1957)
Professor: Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Royal Society of Literature
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Author of books:
Cry, the Peacock (1963, novel)
Bye, Bye Blackbird (1968, novel)
Where Shall We Go This Summer? (1975, novel)
Fire on the Mountain (1977, novel)
Clear Light of Day (1980, novel)
The Village by the Sea (1982, juvenile)
In Custody (1984, novel)
Baumgartner's Bombay (1988, novel)
Journey to Ithaca (1995, novel)
Fasting, Feasting (1999, novel)
Diamond Dust and Other Stories (2000, short stories)
The Zig Zag Way (2004, novel)
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