Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He is born on 19. June
1947. He is the only son of Anis Ahmed Rushdie and Negin Bhatt, a teacher. Rushdie was
born in Bombay, India, into a Muslim family of Kashmiri descent.[10][11][12] He was
educated at Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai, Rugby School, and King's
College, University of Cambridge, where he studied history.
Rushdie's first career was as a copywriter, working for the advertising agency Ogilvy &
Mather. It was while he was at Ogilvy that he wrote Midnight's Children, before becoming a
full-time writer.