Meet Author Thrity Umrigar

Local author Thrity Umrigar, Distinguished University Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, the best-selling author of the novels Honor, Bombay Time, The Space Between Us, If Today Be Sweet, The Weight of Heaven, The World We Found, The Story Hour, Everybody’s Son and The Secrets Between Us, is also author of a memoir and three children’s picture books. Umrigar is winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize, a Lambda Literary award and the Seth Rosenberg prize, as well as a recipient of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard. Tonight at 7 at the Cuyahoga County Public Library's Parma-Snow Branch, she'll launch the publication of her new book, The Museum of Failures, with a reading and interview.