Jhumpa Lahiri was born to Indian immigrant parents in London, but the family moved to Rhode Island, where she was raised. She has a B.A. in English literature from Barnard College, but was rejected by the graduate schools she applied to. She did not begin to write fiction until, after college, she worked in an office in Cambridge, where she began writing after hours on the computer there. Eventually, she sent her work to the creative writing program at Boston University, and eventually earned th more... 

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