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Brinda Charry

Explore the captivating world of English Renaissance literature with novelist Brinda Charry, blending academia and fiction in her debut novel "The East Indian."
on Apr 10, 2024

Brinda Charry went to the United States from India as a graduate student in 1999 and has been living there since. She is a novelist-turned-academic-returned-novelist. A specialist in English Renaissance literature (Shakespeare and contemporaries, with a focus on race, cross-cultural engagement in the 1600s and 1700s, and the early history of globalization), she has published a number of books and articles in that field. The East Indian is her first novel published in the United States. She currently lives in Keene, New Hampshire, with her husband.