Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist who was born on June 19th, 1947. His father was Anis Ahmed Rushdie, who was a lawyer from Cambridge University and owned his own business. His mother, Negin Bhatt, was a teacher. He attended the King’s College and for his graduate studies he went to Cambridge University like his father, receiving a Masters Degree in History in 1968. He had aspired to become a writer since he was five. Rushdie’s first book was Grimus which was published in 1975. Meanwhile, Rushdie was still working as a freelance ad writer, taking him nearly five years to finish off his second book Midnight Children, which was released in 1981. In 1990, another novel by Rushdie was released called Haroun and the Sea of Stories. His writing style can be called magical realism combined with historical fiction. His stories center on the Indian Subcontinent and mostly contain themes such as the migrations to and from the East and West and the happenings that occur between them. His book The Midnight's Children received the Booker Prize. He was appointed Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth in 2007 because of his immense contribution to English literature. Rushdie is also the 13th writer on The Times List of The 50 Greatest British writers since 1945.