Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts and spent 30 years in the fields of advertising and marketing before pivoting to a full-time career as a novelist. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, an instant New York Times Bestseller and a Reese Witherspoon Pick, was translated into 30 languages. Her fourth novel, Six Days in Bombay, was inspired by the 1930s Indian-Hungarian painter Amrita Sher-Gil, and she’s currently working on her fifth. Alka has spoken to over 1000 bookclubs in the last 5 years.