The book was announced as one of the 14 titles in the longlist for the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize on 18 September 2012.

He is what suits him best, as a character that lay claim to nothing more specific or. The memoir is unusual in the sense that Rushdie writes about his life as 'Joseph Anton' in the third person rather than the first person. The character Anton, and the writer Rushdie, is primarily referred to as ‘he’ within the memoir’s pages. It also includes the story of the break-up of his relationship with his second wife, Marianne Wiggins, and the acrimonious nature of their split, and his third and fourth marriages (and break-ups) to Elizabeth West and Padma Lakshmi. The memoir also discusses other aspects of his personal life, such as his friendship with other writers including Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, Bill Buford, and Martin Amis, as well as public figures such as Alan Yentob. His book 'The Satanic Verses' has been banned in. He has written more than a dozen books, and six of his novels are USA TODAY best-sellers. How does it feel, she asked him, to know that you have just been sentenced to death by the Ayatollah Khomeini He remembers thinking, I’m a dead man. He wrote book after book, taught, lectured, travelled, met with readers, married, divorced, and became a fixture in the city that was his. Rushdie began to use 'Joseph Anton' as a pseudonym Rushdie chose the alias to honor the writers Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov. Rushdie is an Indian-born British-American novelist. In the opening paragraph of his memoir titled Joseph Anton, Salman Rushdie writes about first receiving the call from a BBC reporter asking for a response to what had happened. Rushdie's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses had led to a widespread controversy among Muslims, prompting the 1989 fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran. Rushdie accounts his time in hiding from ongoing threats to his life. Joseph Anton: A Memoir is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in September 2012 by Random House. The Satanic Verses, magic realist epic novel by Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie that upon its publication in 1988 became one of the most controversial.

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