Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (b. 1957) lived in Calcutta until the age of nineteen before moving to USA. She earned her Master's and Ph. D. from universities in Ohio and California.

Chitra Divakaruni's books are usually about the Indian immigrant experience in the US. Her stories (mainly told from a woman's perspective) about coming to terms with a life displaced from a traditional homeland strike a chord with the Indian-American community.

She has spent most of her life in Northern California, often the setting of her works. Chitra Divakaruni has won the Pushcart Prize and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize.

Works

• Queen of Dreams
• The Conch Bearer
• Neela: Victory Song
• Vine of Desire
• The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
• Sister of My Heart
• The Mistress of Spices
• Arranged Marriage
• Leaving Yuba City
• Black Candle
• The Reason for Nasturtiums

Desai, Jigna. Rooted Homelands, Routed Hostlands: (En) Gendered Mobility in the South Asian Diaspora. Dissertation-Abstracts-International, Sec.-A. 2000 DAI No.: DA9944354.

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee.  A world apart. Good Housekeeping New York: Jul 1995. 221(1) 169 p.

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee.  Sister of My Heart. Good Housekeeping New York: Mar 1999. 228(3) 169-187.

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee.   A mother's gift. Good Housekeeping New York: May 2001. 232(5) 126-128.

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee.  New Insights into the Novel? Try Reading Three Hundred. (37-41) IN Smiley, Jane.. Writers on Writing. New York, NY : Holt, 2003.

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee.  The love of a good man. Good Housekeeping New York:Feb 1997. 224(2) 148-157.

Farmanfarmaian, Roxane.  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Writing from a Different Place. Publishers-Weekly. 2001 May 14; 248(20): 46-47

Frederick Luis, Aldama.   The Unknown Errors of Our Lives. World Literature Today Norman:Winter 2002. 76(1) 112-113.

Jahan, Husne.  Colonial Woes in Post-Colonial Writing: Chitra Divakaruni's Immigrant Narratives. South Asian Review (SARev). 2003; 24(2): 149-69

Hand, Felicity.  The old rules aren’t always right: An analysis of four short stories by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The Atlantic Literary Review, 2004 5(3-4), 61-77.

Janice Albert.  "How Now, My Metal of India?". English Journal (High School Edition). Urbana:Sep 1997. 86(5) 99-100.

John N Berry.  Five Steps to excellence. Library Journal New York:Jun 15, 2005.130(11)32-35

Kalamaras, George.   Moments of Grace and Magic and Miracle. Bloomsbury-Review. 1998 Mar-Apr; 18(2): 3,6

Knowles, Nancy.  Dissolving Stereotypical Cultural Boundaries: Allusions to Virginia Woolf in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Sister of My Heart; University of Maryland Baltimore County, June 7-10, 2000. (67-73) IN Berman,-Jessica (ed. and introd.); Goldman,-Jane (ed. and introd.). Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds: Selected Papers from the Tenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. New York, NY : Pace UP, 2001.

Leach, Laurie.  Conflict over Privacy in Indo-American Short Fiction. 197-211) IN Cain, William-E. (preface); Brown, Julia (ed.). Ethnicity and the American Short Story. New York, NY : Garland, 1997.

Moka Dias, Brunda.  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. (87-92) IN Nelson,-Emmanuel-S. (ed. and preface). Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT : Greenwood, 2000

Rai, Sudha.  Diasporic Location and Matrilineage: The Poetry of Sujata Bhatt, Meena Alexander and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. 176-89) IN Jain, Jasbir; Singh, Avadhesh Kumar. Indian Feminisms. New Delhi, India : Creative, 2001.

Rajan, Gita.   Chitra Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices: Deploying Mystical Realism. Meridians. 2002; 2(2): 215-36

Rasiah, Dharini.  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. (140-53) IN Cheung, King Kok.. Words Matter: Conversations with Asian American Writers. Honolulu, HI : U of Hawaii P, with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2000.

Robbie, Clipper Sethi.  Arranged Marriage: Stories. Studies in Short Fiction Newberry : Spring 1996. 33(2) 287-288.

Ross, Robert L. 'Haunting Presence' and 'Broken Identities': The Immigrant Experience in Fiction. South-Asian-Review. 1994 Dec; 18(15): 94-103

Ross, Robert. 'Dissolving Boundaries': The Woman as Immigrant in the Fiction of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. (247-54) IN Stilz, Gerhard. Missions of Interdependence: A Literary Directory. Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodopi, 2002.

Ross, Robert.  A metaphor for immigration. The World & I Washington:Dec 1997. 12(12) 261-265.

Roxane, Farmanfarmaian.  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Writing from a different place. Publishers Weekly New York:May 14, 2001. 248(20)46-47.

Sarah Anne Johnson. Writing outside the lines. The Writer Boston:Mar 2004. 117(3) 20-23.

Sarvate, Sarite.  The Mistress of Magical Writing. San Francisco Review of Books. 1997 Mar-Apr; 22(2): 33-36

Sau-ling C Wong.  Middle Class Asian American Women in a Global Frame: Refiguring the Statue of Liberty in Divakaruni and Minatoya. MELUS Los Angeles:Fall 2004. 29(3-4) 183-210.

Seshachari, Neila C.  Writing as Spiritual Experience: A Conversation with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Weber-Studies. 2001 Winter; 18(2): 2-27