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Essentials of Anita Desai’s Lifetime          Anita Desai was born in Mussoorie, India, 24th June, 1937. Her mother was German and her father  Indian and she obtained a degree in English Literature from the University of Delhi. Anita Desai is  a famous Indian writer. She is in her seventies. she is creative, imaginative, quick-witted, sensitive and  big-hearted. She always tries to express what she considers the truth.          She is married  and she has 4 children. She  lives in the United States, where she is Professor of Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She enjoys travelling, reading and working in her garden.  When she travels she goes to Mexico, Europe and occasionally to India. She says that having lived independently for 15 years in the West, she found she could not return to a dependent life in India except on visits.         Desai published her first novel, Cry The Peacock, in 1963. She considers Clear Light of Day (1980) her most autobiograph