Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning and bestselling author, poet, activist and teacher of writing. Her work has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories, the O.Henry Prize Stories and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her books have been translated into 29 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Bengali, Russian and Japanese, and many of them have been used for campus-wide and city-wide reads. Several of her works have been made into films and plays.She lives in Houston with her husband Murthy and has two sons, Anand and Abhay, who are in college. She loves to connect with readers on her Facebook page.
Books by Chitra Divakaruni
HarperCollins, 2023
The Last Queen: A Novel of Courage and Resistance
HarperCollins, 2022
HarperCollins, 2019
Before We Visit the Goddess: A Novel
Simon & Schuster, 2016
Simon & Schuster, 2013
Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale
Roaring Brook Press, 2013
Hyperion, 2010
Shadowland: Book III of the Brotherhood of the Conch
Roaring Brook Press, 2009
Doubleday, 2008
The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming: Book II of the Brotherhood of the Conch
Roaring Brook Press, 2005
Doubleday, 2004
Roaring Brook, 2003
Doubleday, 2002
The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
Doubleday, 2001
Doubleday, 1999
Doubleday, 1997
Anchor, 1996