Breadcrumb Home UI alumna Bharati Mukherjee, writer of immigrant life, dies at 76 Tuesday, February 7, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/books/bharati-mukherjee-dead-author-jasmine… The author of the award-winning collection “The Middleman and Other Stories” and the novel “Jasmine” died Jan. 28 in Manhattan. She was 76.