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R.K. Narayan, given name Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanswami, was born October 10th, 1906 in Madras, British India. Alongside Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao, Narayan was one of the leading authors in early Indian Literature in English. He has often been compared to Faulkner for the way he explores the everyday lives of characters within a social context and for the use of his fictional town in South India, Malgudi. Raised by his grandmother, Narayan worked briefly as a teacher before devoting himself to writing. Even though Narayan quickly gained the patronage of the famed British author Graham Greene, his early career was a struggle. Narayan persevered in the face of his failing novels and...