Name Stephen Alter | Role Author | |
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books Amritsar to Lahore, Fantasies of a Bollywoo, Ghost Letters, Sacred Waters, All the way to heaven | ||
Stephen alter turn your pain into your passion
Stephen Alter (born 1956) is an American author, primarily of non-fiction but also of fiction, who was born and raised in India, where he grew up as the son of missionaries. His childhood was spent primarily in the small British Raj-era hill station of Landour in the Lower Western Himalaya.
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He graduated from Woodstock School (where his father, Rev. Bob Alter, served as Principal from 1968 to 1978) in Landour and subsequently from Wesleyan University.
He has taught writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the American University in Cairo. He has been awarded Fulbright Program and Guggenheim Fellowship grants.
He is married to Ameeta and has a son, Jayant, and daughter, Shibani. His first cousin Tom Alter is a noted Indian theatre, television and film actor as well as a cricket writer.
He came to the school Kunskapsskolan Gurgaon to promote his book The Secret Sanctuary (2015) during its release.