2008 Edition

Salman Rushdie guest edited the 2008 volume of The Best American Short Stories. Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1947. He is the author of such novels as Midnight’s Children (which won the Booker Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an Arts Council Writers' Award and the English-Speaking Union Award, and in 1993 was judged to have been the 'Booker of Bookers,' the best novel to have won the Booker Prize for Fiction in the award's 25-year history; Shame (which won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction); The Satanic Verses (which won the Whitbread Novel Award); The Ground Beneath Her Feet; Fury; and Shalimar The Clown. He is also the author of a children's book, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, which he adapted for the stage (with Tim Supple and David Tushingham. It was first staged at the Royal National Theatre, London); a book of essays entitled Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991; Step Across the Line: Collected Non-fiction 1992-2002; and East, West, a book of short stories.

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