an essay about growing up gay in India in the journal Granta and has published op-eds about gay issues in the New York Times and the Washington Post. Books The Death of Vishnu: A Novel (W. W. Norton, 2001) The Age of Shiva: A Novel (W. W. Norton, 2008) The City of Devi: A Novel (W. W. Norton, 2013) The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math: (W.W. Norton, 2022) Further reading Notes External links ManilSuri.com Academic website 1959 births Living people Indian emigrants to the United States Carnegie Mellon University alumni University of Maryland, Baltimore County faculty American male novelists American male writers of Indian descent University of Mumbai alumni 21st-century American novelists American LGBT novelists Indian LGBT novelists Indian LGBT rights activists American LGBT rights activists American gay writers Gay novelists PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners Novelists from Maryland 21st-century American male writers LGBT mathematicians Writers from Mumbai