The Mountain comes to Stephen | Books
The Himalaya that Stephen Alter writes about are constantly changing, but his sense of belonging to them has remain fixed.
by Bhavya Dore
Aug 23, 2019
2 minutes
Mussoorie-born-and-bred writer Stephen Alter has often been called a "pahadi American". He laughs off the label. "If somebody asks where I'm from, I say Mussoorie, but then usually people don't know where that is, so I explain it's in the Himalaya," says Alter, 62, on the phone from Denver, Colorado. "I try to avoid labels of nationality. I
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