Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri was born 1967 in London, England, and raised in Rhode Island.

She is a graduate of Barnard College, where she received a B.A.

in English literature, and of Boston University, where she received an M.A.

in English, M.A.

in Creative Writing and M.A.

in Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts, and a Ph.D.

in Renaissance Studies.