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Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie was born in Bombay in 1947, a member of a middle-class business family. He was educated at Bombay's Cathedral School, at Rugby School in England, and earned an M.A. in history at King's College, Cambridge. He worked in Pakistani television, as an actor in London, and as an advertising copywriter before becoming a full-time writer.Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children, a family saga of post-Independence India, won the 1981 Booker Prize, England's highest honor for fiction, and also the Booker of Bookers in 1993. In 1989, after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses, the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran, claiming that the book defamed "Islam, the Prophet and the Koran," declared a fatwah against Rushdie, offering a bounty of three million dollars for his life. For the last seven years Rushdie has lived in hiding, making only rare appearances but producing four books: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, a children's story; East, West, a book of short fiction; Imaginary Homelands, a collection of essays and criticism; and The Moor's Last Sigh, his newest work. Rushdie has one son, Zafar.
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