The Golden House

Salman Rushdie is the author of thirteen previous novels ¿ Grimus , Midnight¿s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame , The Satanic Verses , Haroun and the Sea of Stories , The Moor¿s Last Sigh , The Ground Beneath Her Feet , Fury , Shalimar the Clown , The Enchantress of Florence , Luka and the Fire of Life , Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights , and The Golden House ¿ and one collection of short stories: East, West . He has also published four works of non-fiction ¿ Joseph Anton , The Jaguar Smile , Imaginary Homelands , and Step Across This Line ¿ and co-edited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008 . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.