Thrity Umrigar is an

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journalist, critic, and novelist.

Early life

Umrigar was born in

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, India to a Parsi family, and relocated to the United States at the age of 21.

Career

Umrigar received a Bachelor of Science from

Bombay University The University of Mumbai is a collegiate, state-owned, public research university in Mumbai. The University of Mumbai is one of the largest universities in the world. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges. Ratan Tata is the appointed ...

, an M.A. From

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

, and a Ph.D. in English from

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. She has written for ''

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'' and the '' Cleveland Plain Dealer'' and ''

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'' and regularly writes for ''

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''s book pages. She is the Armitage Professor of

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. She is active on the national lecture circuit.

Works

* ''Bombay Time'' (2001) * ''First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood'' (2004) * '' The Space Between Us'' (2006) * ''If Today Be Sweet'' (2007) * ''The Weight of Heaven'' (2009) * ''The World We Found'' (2012) * ''The Story Hour'' (2014) * ''Everybody's Son'' (2017) * ''When I Carried You In My Belly'' (2017) * ''The Secrets Between Us'' (2018) * ''Honor'' (2022)

Recognition

* 2000 -

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for Journalism at

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* 2006 - Finalist for the

PEN/Open Book PEN/Open Book (known as the Beyond Margins Award through 2009) is a program intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities, and works to establish access for diverse literary groups to the publishing i ...

award * 2009 - Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature * 2013 - Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian General Fiction category for her novel, ''The World We Found''"25th annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced"
, ''LGBT Weekly'', 4 June 2013.

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