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Alka Joshi is The New York Times bestselling author of The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris. Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, The Henna Artist was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and has been translated into 29 languages. Alka graduated from Stanford University (BA ’80) and California College of Arts (MFA ’11).