Amitav Ghosh
| Amitav Ghosh | |
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Ghosh in 2017
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| Born |
11 July 1956 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | India United States of America |
| Alma mater |
The Doon School St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Delhi University St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Notable works | The Glass Palace, Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke |
| Spouse | Deborah Baker (wife) |
Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956) is an Indian–American author best known for his work in English fiction.
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on 11 July 1956 to a Bengali Hindu family, to Lieutenant Colonel Shailendra Chandra Ghosh, a retired officer of the pre-independence Indian Army. He was educated at the all-boys Doon School, where he edited The Doon School Weekly. His contemporaries at Doon included author Vikram Seth and Ram Guha. After Doon, he received degrees from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, and Delhi School of Economics. He then won the Inlaks Foundation scholarship to complete a D. Phil. in social anthropology at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, under the supervision of Peter Lienhardt. His first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi.
Ghosh lives in New York with his wife, Deborah Baker, author of the Laura Riding biography In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding (1993) and a senior editor at Little, Brown and Company. They have two adult children, Lila and Nayan. He has been a fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum. In 1999, Ghosh joined the faculty at Queens College, City University of New York, as Distinguished Professor in Comparative literature. He has also been a visiting professor at the English department of Harvard University since 2005. Ghosh subsequently returned to India began working on the Ibis trilogy which includes Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire (published May 2015).
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