| Full Name | Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie |
| Birth Date | June 19, 1947 |
| Birthplace | Bombay, British India (now Mumbai, India) |
| Nationality | Indian (until 1964), British (from 1964), American (from 2016) |
| Occupation | Novelist, professor |
| Education | King’s College, Cambridge (BA) |
| Genre | Magic realism, satire, postcolonialism |
| Notable Works | Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses, Harun Aur Kahaniyo Ka Samunder (Haroun and the Sea of Stories) |
| Spouses | Clarissa Luard (m. 1976; div. 1987), Marianne Wiggins (m. 1988; div. 1993), Elizabeth West (m. 1997; div. 2004), Padma Lakshmi (m. 2004; div. 2007), Rachel Eliza Griffiths (m. 2021) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Knighted in 2007, Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in 1999, Time 100 most influential people in the world in April 2023 |
| Notable Events | Subject of a fatwa issued by Ruhollah Khomeini after the publication of The Satanic Verses, assassination attempts, stabbing incident during a lecture in 2022 |
| Literary Influences | P. G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland), Arthur Ransome (Swallows And Amazons series), J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings), others |
