Bharati Mukherjee
Indian-American writer (1940-2017) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 76
Bharati Mukherjee was an American and Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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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.
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