Thrity Umrigar Biography

The Space Between Us, a national best-seller published by William Morrow and a #1 BookSense selection, was written by Thrity Umrigar. It was also a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins award. More than 15 nations have published the book, and a movie option has been placed on it. Additionally, she is the author of the memoir If Today Be Sweet First Darling of the Morning and the book The Weight of Heaven (Harper). She is a seasoned speaker who motivates and inspires audiences to write and share their own experiences. She also speaks on topics such as class, gender, immigration, cultural diversity, and how to build and promote community. She frequently writes on these subjects. Around the nation, Umrigar has delivered speeches at colleges, libraries, literary festivals, museums, and conferences. Umrigar arrived in the United States at the age of 21. She was born in Bombay, India. Umrigar had the type of international upbringing that has benefited her in her career as a writer while growing up as a Parsi student in a country with a large Hindu population and attending a Catholic school. She was labeled as a daydreaming, absent-minded child by both teachers and parents, and she spent her childhood getting lost in the stories written by Steinbeck, Hemingway, Woolf, and Faulkner. She would spend enough time apart from these novels to develop her own imaginative and lyrical universes. Umrigar was encouraged by her pragmatic parents to pursue a business degree at the college level. Umrigar made it through business school by starting a theatrical club and writing, directing, and playing in plays. At the age of 15, she started submitting her poetry, short tales, and essays to major newspapers and periodicals in India.

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