Neela vaswani biography
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Bio for Kids and the ung at Heart
Neela’s mother used to say, “You and a book, like a fish and water,” when she caught Neela reading during dinner (a tip for other Book-Reading-Bandits: covering a book with a napkin in your lap is not an effective way to hide it).
Neela’s ideal day includes dancing on the subway, eating pickles with family and friends, and sitting still in the middle of a forest with a good book and a pack of dogs and chimpanzees.
She lives in New York City with her husband (who can talk nonstop and stand on his head for a very long time), and travels around teaching, writing, and feeling lucky to do what she loves.
Neela's father is Sindhi-Indian and her mother is Irish-Catholic. When Neela was a kid, her family did a lot of wandering. Outside of the U.S., her favorite countries to live in are: India, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Egypt, China, Ireland, and Belgium.
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Neela Vaswani
American writer of Indian extraction
Neela Vaswani is an American writer of Indian heritage. She was born in 1974 in Port Jefferson, New York, and received degrees from Skidmore College, Vermont College, and the University of Maryland.[1] She narrated the audio version of I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, and won a Grammy for this in 2015.[2][3] She is married to actor Holter Graham and lives in New York City. She is the founder of the Storylines Project, which she did with the New York Public Library.[4]
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[edit]Deborah Stevenson, editor of the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books at Johns Hopkins University Press, wrote: "While a few spreads digress less usefully, albeit playfully, it's that emphasis on varying perspectives that makes this valuable, since kids in all kinds of places will benefit from the prompt to reexamine their surroundings through fresh eyes."[8] • Interview with Neela Vaswani, co-author, Same Sun Here Author Neela Vaswani Neela Vaswani is author of the short story collection Where the Long Grass Bends, and a memoir, You Have Given Me a Country. She is the recipient of the American Book Award, an O. Henry Prize, the ForeWord Book of the Year gold medal, the Nautilus Book Award gold medal, and many other honors. She is also co-author of the Middle Grade novel-in-letters, Same Sun Here. Her fiction and nonfiction have been widely anthologized and published in journals such as Epoch, Shenandoah, and Prairie Schooner. She has been a Visiting-Writer-in-Residence at more than 100 institutions, among them: Knox College, 92nd Street Y (Tribeca), the Jimenez-Porter House at the University of Maryland, Kentucky Women Writers Conference, the Whitney Museum in New York City, and IIIT Hyderabad, India. She has a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, lives in New York City, and teaches at Manhattanv
Neela Vaswani