Thrity Umrigar is an Indian-American journalist, critic, and novelist. Early life Umrigar was born in Mumbai, India to a Parsi family, and relocated to the United States at the age of 21. Career Umrigar received a Bachelor of Science from Bombay University, an M.A. From Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in English from Kent State University. She has written for The Washington Post and the Cleveland Plain Dealer and The Huffington Post and regularly writes for The Boston Globes book pages. She is the Armitage Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She is active on the national lecture circuit. Works Bombay Time (2001) First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood (2004) The Space Between Us (2006) If Today Be Sweet (2007) The Weight of Heaven (2009) The World We Found (2012) The Story Hour (2014) Everybody's Son (2017) When I Carried You In My Belly (2017) The Secrets Between Us (2018) Honor (2022) Recognition 2000 - Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard University 2006 - Finalist for the PEN/Open Book award 2009 - Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature 2013 - Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian General Fiction category for her novel, The World We Found See also List of Indian writers References External links Personal website American women writers of Indian descent Living people Indian emigrants to the United States Nieman Fellows Ohio State University alumni Kent State University alumni Writers from Mumbai American people of Parsi descent University of Mumbai alumni Case Western Reserve University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Writers from Cleveland Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction winners Parsi people 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers American women academics