Rushdie, Salman

An Indian-born twentieth-century British writer of acclaimed novels such as Midnight's Children and Shame . He went into hiding after the publication of The Satanic Verses , a modern fable of good and evil, which prompted Iran 's Ayatollah Khomeini to demand his execution.

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It's for the crime of apostasy (in this case, writing a novel) that Ayatollah Khomenei sent death squads for Salman Rushdie.

But Susan Sontag, William T. Vollmann, Salman Rushdie, and Milan Kundera are all vocal fans of Kis.

The tweets of Salman Rushdie or Colson Whitehead—who has even released fiction via Twitter—might someday find a home in books.

Particularly with the Sunni Islamists, who couldn't care less about Salman Rushdie.

According to the Iranian government, the failure of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.

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