Indian author Bharati Mukherjee, part of a Canadian and American literary power couple with her husband writer Clark Blaise, died Saturday in New York at 76. Mukherjee and Blaise met at the highly regarded Iowa Writers Workshop where both were studying. “It was an important moment in Canadian literature ... We were making history with everything we did,” Blaise told the Star in 2011. “It came down to a choice of marriage or country,” Blaise told the Star in 2011. Her father, Sudhir Lal Mukherjee, ran a successful pharmaceutical company and her mother, the former Bina Banerjee, was a homemaker.

Source: thestar February 02, 2017 22:11 UTC