Thrity Umrigar is the author of six novels-The Story Hour, The World We Found, The Weight of Heaven, The Space between Us, If Today Be Sweet, and Bombay Time-and the memoir First Darling of the Morning. The Armington Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University and a journalist for nearly twenty years, she is the winner of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard and was a 2006 finalist for the PEN/Beyond Margins Award. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
