SALMAN RUSHDIE is the author of 15 novels, including Luka and the Fire of Life; Midnight’s Children, for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker; Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Stories; The Moor’s Last Sigh; Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights; The Golden House; Quichotte, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; and Victory City, and East, West, a collection of short stories. He has also published six works of nonfiction: The Jaguar Smile; Imaginary Homelands; Step Across This Line; Joseph Anton; Languages of Truth; and Knife, which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and co-edited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN America, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature. The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories (Random House) is his latest book.
