10 Facts about Jhumpa Lahiri

1. Lahiri was appointed as a member of the president's committee on the arts and humanities

2. Lahiri is the daughter of a Bengali Indian Immigrant

3. she studied at south Kingstown High School and later on graduates at Barnard College with a Bachelor of arts degree in English literature

4. Her first published book was called "Interpreter of Maladies" and got Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

and Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for that book.

5. Her second book "Unaccustomed Earth" was on the New York Best Seller.

6. Her Zodiac sign is Cancer

7. Her stories were famous and people liked in America, but not India.

8. Born at July 11, 1967 (age 49), in London, United Kingdom.

9. Lahiri returned in 2013 with The Lowland, which became a National Book Award finalist and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

10. She got 3 literacy master's degrees in Boston University and receives her doctorate in Renaissance studies.