Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie has written eleven novels, including Midnight’ s Children, winner of the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker, The Satanic Verses, and the collection of short stories East, West. His is the author of a memoir, Joseph Anton, and two other books of nonfiction, The Jaguar Smile and Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991.

He is the co-editor of two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008.

Rushdie is a former president of American PEN.