At the beginning of 1962, a tall, thin-lipped thirty-three-year-old named James Ivory and a charming, cleft-chinned twenty-five-year-old named Ismail Merchant turned up on the doorstep of a bungalow ...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala moved to New York in the 1970s, after a quarter-century in India, with a sense of homecoming. In the pickled cucumbers of West Side delicatessens, she found a "memory-stirring ...

This morning, the writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala passed away, at the age of eighty-five. Beginning in 1957, Jhabvala published thirty-one stories in The New Yorker; her most recent story, “The Judge’s ...

Included at the start of the story collection “Disinheritance” (Counterpoint, 352 pages, $30) is a speech that its author, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, delivered in 1979, which has one of the best metaphors ...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Oscar-winning screenwriter and acclaimed novelist, died today at her home in New York City. She was 85. Jhabvala collaborated with producer Ismail Merchant and director James ...

First published in July 1980, Ian Jack's profile of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who died on April 3, remains the best piece on the screenwriter and novelist. It is one of 40 remarkable essays in Mofussil ...

The only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar, Ruth Jhabvala, almost forgotten today, was an unusual author-screenplay writer. Would you have anything by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala?” The ...

Screenwriter and novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who collaborated for five decades with James Ivory and Ismail Merchant and won Oscars for “A Room With a View” and “Howards End,” died of a pulmonary ...

The writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who has died aged 85, achieved her greatest fame late in life, and for work she had once dismissed as a hobby – listing "writing film scripts" as a recreation in Who's ...