Manisha Gupta

Introduction

Manisha Gupta is a persevering new author who has ventured into the writers’ domain with her maiden book – Prodigy of Errors.

An alumnus of Loreto Convent and Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow, she pursued her Masters in English Literature, and took up teaching profession by choice. Being an Air Force Officer’s wife, she has had the privilege of travelling far and wide. Her exposure to the heterogeneous society with all its diverse cultures, has greatly enriched her life’s experiences and influenced her to share them in her writings.

She had recently participated in the Penguin’s Literary Festival, and has also been writing blogs on wattpad (http://www.wattpad.com/user/mgsbookpub). As an amateur writer, she had written a lyrical memoir, “The High School Backbenchers” published in 2008. (ISBN 978-81-313-0883-7).

She is a salubrious sagittarian, a conscious egalitarian and an austere vegetarian.

With both her children married and settled in life, she now lives in Gurgaon, with her husband and her golden Labrador, Shadow. Email: mani28n@yahoo.co.in

Her Interests:

Anything unconventional and groundbreaking interests her....reading fiction, memoirs, self help books; creative writing; playing western classical music on piano, listening to country rock, jazz n blues...

Favourite Films

Dangerous Minds, A Beautiful Mind, Dr.Zhivago, Schindler's List, The Pianist, The Terminal, Serendipity, Seven, Dark Knight

Favourite Music

Piano compositions of Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Schubert. Chopin and recently - Rainburn; Country songs by Kenny Rogers, Elton John, Neil Diamond, The Beatles, The Beegees, Robby Williams,Lionel Richie, Steve Wonder, Barbara Streisand, Rock n Roll - Elvis Priestly, Michael Jackson, Hindi= Kishore Kumar-Lata classics, ghazals etc.

Favourite Books

The Fountainhead(Ayn Rand), The Brothers Karamazov(Fyodor Dostoyevsky); An Equal Music(Vikram Seth), Half a Life(V,S. Naipaul), The Last Lecture(Randy Pausch), The Kite Runner(Khaled Hosseini), Black Swan(Nassim Nicholas Taleb), Stop the Excuses(Wayne Ryder), The Alchemist,(Paulo Coelho), poetry by Kahlil Gibran....