Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of three previous works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesakeand, most recently, Unaccustomed Earth. A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, a PEN/Hemingway Award, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2012. - (Random House, Inc.)