Brinda Charry was born in Chennai, India, and moved to the US in 1999. She is a novelist-turned-academic-returned-novelist. A specialist in English Renaissance literature (Shakespeare and contemporaries), she has published a number of books and articles in that field. She was inspired to write The East Indian by a one-line entry in colonial records mentioning the first Indian to set foot on American soil: ‘Tony East Indian’. Charry lives in New Hampshire with her husband and dog.
