Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

'She felt at home [in New York], she said--more at home than anywhere else she had ever lived, finding many people like herself: refugees, outsiders, interesting American discontents.'

JAMES IVORY, American film director, describing Jhabvala's affinity for her final adopted home. The German-born screenwriter collaborated often with Ivory and won Academy Awards for A Room With a View and Howard's End

TO READ JAMES IVORY'S FULL APPRECIATION OF JHABVALA, VISIT time.com/jhabvala

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