biography
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Mehta, Ved (Parkash)
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pronunciation:
[mayta]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1934– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Lahore, NE Pakistan (formerly India). Blind from the age of four, he went to the USA for his education when he was 15, and attended the Arkansas School for the Blind at Little Rock, and Pomona College, before going to Oxford and Harvard universities. While at Pomona he published his first book, the autobiography Face to Face (1957). He has had a distinguished career as a journalist, contributing chiefly to The New Yorker. Employing amanuenses, he has written biographies, stories, essays, and portraits of India, including The New India (1978) and Rajiv Gandhi and Rama's Kingdom (1995), and in 1999 appeared Remembering Mr Shawn's New Yorker. His enduring achievement, however, is Continents of Exile, an acclaimed series of autobiographical books (1972–89). He became a US citizen in 1975. |
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