above all, a man who thinks things out." In 1989, Spy published a critical article about his misogynist attitude toward his assistants and writings that were frequently regarded as dull and self-indulgent. He left the magazine after, as he claimed, he was "terminated" by editor Tina Brown. One of the articles he wrote for The New Yorker in 1961 consisted of interviews with Oxford philosophers. A volume of the letters of one of those philosophers, Isaiah Berlin, contains an honest response to Mehta's inquiry about the reactions of his subjects: "You ask me what the reactions of my colleagues are to your piece on Oxford Philosophy... [T]hose to whom I have spoken are in various degrees outraged or indignant ... The New Yorker is a satirical magazine, and I assume from the start that a satire was intended and not an accurate representation of the truth. In any case, only a serious student of philosophy could attempt to do that." The article was published as a book, now including other public intellectuals, as Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals (1962). Mehta's autobiography, titled Continents of Exile, was published in 12 instalments between 1972 and 2004. Its first volume, Daddyji (1972), is part autobiography and part biography of Mehta's father. Mehta became an American citizen in 1975. Personal life In 1983 he married Linn Fenimore Cooper Cary, the daughter of William Lucius Cary and Katherine Lemoine Fenimore Cary; his wife's mother was a descendant of James Fenimore Cooper and the niece of Mehta's former New Yorker colleague, Henry Sage Fenimore Cooper, Jr. A 1978 profile by Madhur Jaffrey wrote that Mehta regarded himself as "part Indian", "part English", "part American", and as an "expatriate". Mehta died on 9 January 2021, with complications from Parkinson's disease. Publications Continents of Exile Mamaji. 1979. Vedi. 1982. The Ledge Between the Streams. 1984. Sound-Shadows of the New World. 1986. The Stolen Light. 1989. Up at Oxford. 1993. Haunted at Harvard. 2007 (written c. 1991). Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing. 1998. Dark Harbor: Building House and Home on an Enchanted Island. 2003. The Red Letters: My Father's Enchanted Period. 2004. Other books The Photographs of Chachaji Three Stories of the Raj Rajiv Gandhi and Rama's Kingdom Awards and honours Mehta received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1971 and 1977. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1982, and was elected a