{"id":810,"date":"2021-04-24T15:01:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T19:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/?p=810"},"modified":"2021-08-14T14:38:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T18:38:52","slug":"monica-ali-biography-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/monica-ali-biography-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Monica Ali Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_811\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-811\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-811\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2021\/04\/579970-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2021\/04\/579970-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2021\/04\/579970.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/monica-ali-i-wear-the-same-smelly-pyjamas-again-and-again-it-s-revolting-2243857.html<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Monica Ali was born on October 20, 1967, in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), to a Bangladeshi father and English mother. Her father worked as a teacher, and her mother was a counselor. However, due to their controversial i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nterracial marriage, the Ali family emigrated to England in 1971 following a Civil War outbreak in P<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">akistan. Settling in Bolton, near <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Manchester, Ali went on to study at Oxford, where she completed a degree in an interdisciplinary program combining philosophy, politics, and economics. After university, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ali worked in the marketing department of a publishing house before going on to subsequent jobs in sales and marketing. She married consultant Simon Torrance, and in 1999, gave birth to her first child, a son named Felix. During this time off, Ali began experimenting with writing fiction. In 2001, Ali&#8217;s daughter, Shumi, was born; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">however, shortly afterward, Ali&#8217;s father died. This loss prompted her to reflect on family values and history, which subsequently encouraged the manuscript for her first novel, <\/span><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Brick Lane, <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">published in May 2003.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following the success of <\/span><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Brick Lane<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Ali continued to write professionally, publishing<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> Alentejo Blue<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (2006),<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> In the Kitchen<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (2009), and <\/span><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Untold Story<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (2011). Ali currently resides in London with her family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monica Ali was born on October 20, 1967, in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), to a Bangladeshi father and English mother. Her father worked as a teacher, and her mother was a counselor. However, due to their controversial interracial marriage, the Ali family emigrated to England in 1971 following a Civil War outbreak in Pakistan. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/monica-ali-biography-timeline\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monica Ali Biography&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28,8],"tags":[170,169],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-monica-ali","category-project-3-author-archive","tag-brick-lane","tag-monica-ali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}