Salman Rushdie June 16, 2008

Indian-born but schooled in the United Kingdom, Salman Rushdie remained a naturalized British citizen, though he has mined his past in India and Pakistan for the architecture of his novels. He explores big themes in his books and takes his characters on flights of fancy.

For much of the 1980s, Rushdie was the proverbial Invisible Man, in hiding from multimillion-dollar bounties on his head spurred by a fatwa from the Iranian Ayatollah for supposedly mocking the Islamic faith in his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.

Rushdie will be discussing his latest work, The Enchantress of Florence. Book signing to follow.

June 16, 2008
7:30 PM Program with Audience Q&A
Book Signing to Follow