I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.

Novelist and essayist                          

Selected Works:

Grimus - 1975
Midnight's Children - 1981
Shame - 1983
The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey - 1987
The Satanic Verses - 1988
Haroun and the Sea of Stories - 1990
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981 - 1991 - 1992
Homeless by Choice - 1992, with R. Jhabvala and V. S. Naipaul
East, West - 1994
The Moor's Last Sigh - 1995
The Firebird's Nest - 1997
The Ground Beneath Her Feet - 1999
The Screenplay of Midnight's Children - 1999
Fury - 2001
Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992 - 2002 - 2002
Shalimar the Clown - 2005
The Enchantress of Florence - 2008
The Best American Short Stories - 2008, as Guest Editor

Essays:

In The South - The New Yorker, May 18, 2009.
A fine pickle - The Guardian, February 28, 2009

Imagine There Is No Heaven - extracted contribution from Letters to the Six Billionth World Citizen, a UN sponsored publication in English by Uitgeverij Podium, Amsterdam. The Guardian, October 16, 1999.

Mohandas Gandhi. TIME, April 13, 1998.                          

Mother Negin Butt
Father Anis Ahmed Rushdie
First wife Clarissa Luard - 1976-1987, one son, Zafar.
Second wife Marianne Wiggins - 1988-1993. 
Third wife, Elizabeth West - 1997-2004, one son, Milan. 
Fourth wife Padma Lakshmi - 2004-2007.                          

Awards:

Aristeion Prize - European Union
Arts Council Writers' Award
Author of the Year - British Book Awards
Author of the Year - Germany
Booker of Bookers or the best novel among the Booker Prize winners for Fiction awarded in 1993
The Best of the Booker awarded in 2008 to commemorate 40 years of Booker Prize
Booker Prize for Fiction
Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres - France
English-Speaking Union Award
Hutch Crossword Fiction Prize - India
India Abroad Lifetime Achievement Award - USA
James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction
Kurt Tucholsky Prize - Sweden
Mantua Prize - Italy
James Joyce Award - University College Dublin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Honorary Professorship
Chapman University Honorary Doctorate - Doctor of Humane Letters
Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Humanism - Harvard University
Premio Grinzane Cavour - Italy
Prix Colette - Switzerland
Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
St. Louis Literary Award - Saint Louis University
State Prize for Literature - Austria
The Best of the Booker Winner by public vote, awarded in commemoration of the Booker Prize's 40th anniversary.
Whitbread Novel Award - twice
Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Children's Fiction                          

Salman's fourth novel, The Satanic Verses - 1988, provoked violent reactions from Muslims all over the world. After death threats and a fatwa (religious edict) issued by Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini calling for his assassination, he spent years underground, appearing in public only sporadically.