page_title: List of Indian Americans
section_title: Literature
hierarchical_section_title: List of Indian Americans / Literature
caption_attribution_description: English: Kiran Desai and Sookin, 2015 PEN Gala, May 5, 2015, American Museum of Natural History © Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center
context_page_description: Indian Americans are citizens or residents of the United States of America who trace their family descent to India.
context_section_description: Abraham Verghese, doctor and author; wrote In My Own Country and My Tennis Partner
  Agha Shahid Ali, poet
  Aimee Nezhukumatathil, poet
  Amitav Ghosh, Indo-nostalgic writer and winner of Prix Médicis étranger
  Anita Desai, novelist; shortlisted for the Booker prize three times; mother of Kiran Desai
  Anu Garg, author, speaker, and computer engineer
  Arnold Rampersad, biographer and literary critic
  Bharati Mukherjee, author, professor
  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author
  Davan Maharaj, journalist and former editor-in-chief and publisher of the Los Angeles Times
  Dhan Gopal Mukerji, first successful Indian man of letters in the US; winner of the Newbery Medal, 1928
  Gaiutra Bahadur, author
  Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, author
  Indira Viswanathan Peterson, literary critic
  Indu Sundaresan, author
  Janaki Ram, author
  Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
  Kaavya Viswanathan, novelist
  Kiran Desai, winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize
  Parag Khanna, author
  Rajiv Joseph, playwright
  Ramya Ramana, poet
  Ravi Batra, bestselling author and economist
  Ravi Shankar, poet
  Rishi Reddi, author
  Roshani Chokshi novelist
  S. T. Joshi, literary critic
  Salman Rushdie, novelist and essayist
  Saumitra Saxena, Hindi poet, Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhana Award winner
  Shauna Singh Baldwin, novelist, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
  Siddharth Katragadda, author, filmmaker, artist
  Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician, scientist and writer, 2011 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Susham Bedi, author
  Thrity Umrigar, author of Bombay Time
  Tulika Mehrotra, author, journalist
  Usha Haley, author
  Vijay Seshadri, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and essayist
  Vikram Seth, poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist
caption: Kiran Desai, winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize
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