Thrity Umrigar is an Indian-American journalist, critic, and novelist.
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 Umrigar at the 2022 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | Thrity Umrigar 1961 [1] Mumbai, India |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | B.S. Bombay University, M.A. Ohio State University, Ph.D. Kent State University |
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Early life
editUmrigar was born in Mumbai, India to a Parsi family,[2] and relocated to the United States at the age of 21. There she completed her graduate education.[3]
Umrigar received a Bachelor of Science from Bombay University, a M.A. in journalism from Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in English from Kent State University.[1][4]
Career
editUmrigar started her career in journalism as a reporter for the Lorain Journal in 1985, moving to the Akron Beacon Journal in 1987, where she worked while simultaneously working on her doctorate at Kent State.[5] After a stint as a Nieman Fellow for Journalism at Harvard University, where she worked on completing her first novel, Bombay Time, she left the Beacon Journal in 2002 for a visiting professorship at Case Western Reserve University.[6]
She has written for The Washington Post, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and The Huffington Post. She regularly writes for The Boston Globe's book pages. She is the Armitage Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She is also active on the national lecture circuit.[4][7][8]
Works
edit- Bombay Time (2001)[9]
- First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood (2004)[10]
- The Space Between Us (2006)[11]
- If Today Be Sweet (2007)[12]
- The Weight of Heaven (2009)[13]
- The World We Found (2012)[14]
- The Story Hour (2014)[15]
- Everybody's Son (2017)[16]
- When I Carried You in My Belly (2017)[17]
- The Secrets Between Us (2018)[18]
- Binny's Diwali (2020)[19]
- Sugar in Milk (2020)[20]
- Honor (2022)[21]
- The Museum of Failures (2023)[22]
Recognition
edit- 2000 - Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard University[23][7]
- 2006 - Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award[24]
- 2009 - Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature[25]
- 2013 - Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian General Fiction category for her novel, The World We Found[26]
See also
editReferences
edit- 1 2 Thrity Umrigar, Cleveland Public Library. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
- ↑ "Bookslut - An Interview with Thrity Umrigar". www.bookslut.com. Archived from the original on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
- ↑ "Bio". Thrity Umrigar official website. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
- 1 2 "Thrity Umrigar". Bookpage. 15 December 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
- ↑ "An interview with Thrity Umrigar". Bookbrowse. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
- ↑ "Life in Motion,", Cleveland Magazine, December 20, 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
- 1 2 "Writers-on-the-bay-series". BetsyWritersRoom. 14 September 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
- ↑ "Journalists who moonlight as fiction writers". Khabar. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
- ↑ "Bombay Time". Thrity Umrigar. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ↑ "First Darling of the Morning". Thrity Umrigar. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ↑ "The Space Between Us". Thrity Umrigar. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ↑ "If Today Be Sweet". Thrity Umrigar. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ↑ "The Weight of Heaven". Thrity Umrigar. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ↑ "The World We Found". Thrity Umrigar. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ↑ "The Story Hour". Thrity Umrigar. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ↑ "Everybody's Son". Thrity Umrigar. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
- ↑ "When I Carried You In My Belly". Thrity Umrigar. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ↑ "The Secrets Between Us". Thrity Umrigar. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
- ↑ "Binny's Diwali". Thrity Umrigar. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
- ↑ "Sugar In Milk". Thrity Umrigar. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
- ↑ "Honor". Workman Publishing. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
- ↑ Umrigar, Thrity (2023). The Museum of Failures. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books. ISBN 9781643753553. Retrieved 15 March 2026.
- ↑ "Nieman Foundation | Nieman Fellowships | Meet the Fellows | Alumni Fellows". Archived from the original on 18 March 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- ↑ "Department of English". Retrieved 19 December 2018.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 March 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "25th annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced" Archived 10 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine, LGBT Weekly, 4 June 2013.
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