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Bharati Mukherjee in New York in 1988.
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Bharati Mukherjee
Died on January 28, 2017 at age 76
An Indian-born American writer, Ms. Mukherjee explored the internal culture clashes of her immigrant characters in the award-winning collection “The Middleman and Other Stories” and in novels like “Jasmine.“
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.