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Season 3, Episode 12: Best-selling Author Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son

November 11, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

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The Golden Son

RECORDED 2/1/16 5PM: I was excited to speak with best-selling author Shilpi Somaya Gowda. She’s making a big splash with her second book, The Golden Son just published. Listen in to the interview here and learn about the inspiration for her second book and her journey as a writer or download the episode from itunes.-Heidi Durrow

Don’t miss @heididurrow interview of best-selling author @shilpigowda! #multiracial #mixedrace

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Shilpi Somoya Gowda on Heidi Durrow's podcastShilpi Somaya Gowda was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. In college, she spent a summer as a volunteer in an Indian orphanage, which seeded the idea for her first novel, Secret Daughter, published in 2010. It became an international bestseller, selling over 1 million copies worldwide, and has been translated into 24 languages. Her second novel, The Golden Son, is being published in late 2015-early 2016 around the world. Shilpi holds an MBA from Stanford University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead-Cain scholar. She has served on the Advisory Board of the Children’s Defense Fund, and is a Patron of Childhaven International, the organization for which she volunteered in India. She lives in California with her husband and children.

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