Winning the Booker Prize in 1981 for his second novel, "Midnight's Children," enhanced Rushdie's literary reputation, but it was his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses" that catapulted him into celebrity, and forced him into hiding. Nevertheless, during the last decade of the 20th century, Salman Rushdie was not just a famous novelist he was more familiar to more people than even O.J. "To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer," he said. The once-famous novelist Gore Vidal maintained that, in an age in which fiction has lost its authority, "famous novelist" no longer has meaning. By Salman Rushdie ( Random House 636 pages $30)
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