Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee
Speaking at the US Ambassador's residence in Israel, June 11, 2004
Born
Bharati Mukherjee

(1940-07-27)July 27, 1940
DiedJanuary 28, 2017(2017-01-28) (aged 76)
Occupation
  • Professor
  • novelist
  • essayist
  • short story writer
  • author
  • fiction writer
  • non-fiction writer
NationalityIndian
American
Canadian
GenreNovels, short stories, essays, travel literature, journalism.
SubjectsPost-colonial Anglophone fiction, Asian American fiction, autobiographical narratives, memoirs, American culture, immigration history, reformation and nationhood in the '90s, multiculturalism vs. mongrelization, fiction writing, autobiography writing, and the form and theory of fiction.
Notable worksJasmine
SpouseClark Blaise

Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, 1940 – January 28, 2017) was an American and Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in India, she was the author of a number of novels and short story collections, as well as works of nonfiction that often focused on the experience of Indian immigrants to America.