
OTHERįace to Face: An Autobiography, Atlantic-Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1957. The Red Letters, Thunder's Mouth Press (New York, NY), 2004.

Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing, Overlook Press (New York, NY), 1998.Īll for Love, Thunder's Mouth Press (New York, NY), 2001.ĭark Harbor: Building House and Home on an Enchanted Island, Thunder's Mouth Press (New York, NY), 2003. The Ledge between the Streams (originally published in the New Yorker), W.W. Vedi (originally published in the New Yorker), Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1982. Mamaji (originally published in the New Yorker), Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1979.
VED CELEBRATED WRITER THE NEW YORKER SERIES
WRITINGS: "CONTINENTS OF EXILE" SERIES AUTOBIOGRAPHICALĭaddyji (originally published in the New Yorker), Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York, NY), 1972. Honorary degrees from Pomona College, D.Litt., 1972 Bard College, D.Litt., 1982 Williams College, D.Litt., 1986 Stirling University, Scotland, Doctor of Letters, 1988 and Bowdoin College, L.H.D., 1995. MacArthur Foundation fellowship, 1982–87 Asian/Pacific Americans Library Association distinguished service award, 1986 New York City Mayor's Liberty Medal, 1986 Pomona College centenary Barrows Award, 1987 New York Institute for Humanities fellowship, 1988–92 New York Public Library Literary Lion medal, 1990, and centennial medal, 1996 Asian-American Heritage Month award, New York State, 1991 Balliol College, Oxford, honorary fellow, 1999.

MEMBER: Phi Beta Kappa, Council on Foreign Relations, Century Association (trustee 1972–75), Tarratine Club of Dark Harbor (ME).ĪWARDS, HONORS: Hazen fellowship, 1956–59 Secondary Education Board Annual Book Award, 1958, for Face to Face Harvard, Eliot House residential fellowship, 1959–61 Ford Foundation travel and study grants, 1971–76 Guggenheim fellowships, 1971–72, 1977–78 Dupont Columbia Award for excellence in broadcast journalism, 1977–78, for documentary film Chachaji, My Poor Relation Association of Indians in America award, 1978 Ford Foundation public policy grant, 1979–82 John D.

Columbia University Media Studies Center Freedom Forum, senior fellow, 1996–97 Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA, fellow, 1997–98. Case- Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, visiting scholar, 1974 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, visiting professor of literature, 1985, 1986 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, Noble Foundation visiting professor of art and cultural history, 1988 Balliol College, Oxford, visiting fellow in literature, 1988–89 New York University, New York, NY, visiting professor of English, 1989–90 Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Arnold Bernhard visiting professor of English and history, 1994 Vassar College, Pough-keepsie, NY, Randolph visiting distinguished professor of English and history, 1994–96. Agent-Georges Borchardt, 136 East 57th St., 14th Fl., New York, NY 10022.ĬAREER: New Yorker magazine, New York, NY, staff writer, 1961–94 American Heritage Dictionary, member of usage panel, 1982 Yale University, New Haven, CT, Rosenkranz Chair in Writing, 1990–93, lecturer in history, 1990–93, lecturer in English, 1991–93. Hobbies and other interests: Indian and Western music, cycling, wine.ĪDDRESSES: Home and office-139 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10021-0324. (with honors), 1959 Harvard University, M.A., 1961 Oxford University, M.A., 1962. Education: Pomona College, B.A., 1956 Balliol College, Oxford, B.A.

citizen, 1975 son of Amolak Ram (a doctor and health official) and Shanti (Mehra) Mehta married Linn Fenimore Cooper Cary (an assistant program officer at Ford Foundation), Decemchildren: Alexandra Sage, Natasha Cary. PERSONAL: Born March 21, 1934, in Lahore, India naturalized U.S.
