The Management of Grief

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Born in Calcutta, India, to a prominent family, Bharati Mukherjee received a bachelor's degree from the University of Calcutta and two masters degrees (in literature and ancient Indian culture) from the University of Baroda. She left India in 1961 to earn a Ph.D. at the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Married in 1966 to the Canadian writer Clark Blaise, Bharati Mukherjee lived in Montreal and taught at McQill University until 1979, at which time, according to her account, the rise of racial intolerance in Canada made living in that country increasingly difficult, and she, Clark Blaise, and their two sons moved to Saratoga Springs, New York, where she taught at Skidmore College. Since that time Bharati Mukherjee has taught at Columbia University, City University, and Queens College, and is currently a professor at Berkeley.

Bharati Mukherjee, who has described herself as imaginatively stimulated by the "exuberance of immigration," became an American citizen in 1988. The work for which she is best known draws upon the experience of immigration in America, not only her own but that of others, of diverse ethnic backgrounds. This alone would make her something of a special case as a writer; the extraordinary range of her authorial "voices" distinguishes her further. Her celebrated collection of stories, The Middleman (1988), is inhabited by naturalized American citizens and refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan, Uganda, and Latin America, as well as India.

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