Jhumpa Lahiri is an American novelist and short story writer whose work primarily focuses on the emotions that accompany the immigrant experience. Her debut collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000.

• Interpreter of Maladies

• The Namesake

• Unaccustomed Earth

Lahiri was born in London to Bengali parents who had emigrated from India. After moving to Rhode Island, she attended Barnard College, earning her Bachelor's Degree in English Literature. She then obtained Master's Degrees in English, Creative Writing, and Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts, before going on to complete a Ph. D. in Renaissance Studies at Boston University. Lahiri married Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush in 2001, and they live in Brooklyn, New York.

While Lahiri began writing as a child, her serious attempts at writing began in her early twenties. Some of the stories that are featured in Interpreter of Maladies were written while she was attending a Creative Writing course at Boston University. Lahiri cites Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant and several 19th century litterateurs as influences.

After completing her doctoral dissertation, Lahiri was accepted for a residency fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In the course of 1998, she had three stories published The New Yorker. These and six other stories appeared in her debut work, Interpreter of Maladies, published in 1999. The collection won a clutch of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Her next work was a novel, The Namesake, published in 2003. The novel was adapted into a film directed by Mira Nair in 2007. Lahiri published another collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth in 2008. The collection topped The New York Times best seller list on appearance.