Education
He graduated from Woodstock School (where his father Rev Bob Alter long served as Principal) in Landour and subsequently from Wesleyan University.
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Stephen Alter
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Career
His childhood was spent primarily in the small British Raj-era hill station of Landour in the Lower Western Himalaya. He has taught writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the American University in Cairo.
Achievements
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Non-Fiction All the Way to Heaven: An American Boyhood in the Himalayas Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage Up the Ganges River to the Source of Hindu Culture Elephas Maximus: A Portrait of the Indian Elephant Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief Fiction Renuka Neglected Lives Silk and Steel The Godchild Aripan & Other Stories (2005).
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