Padma Venkatraman



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Padma Venkatraman

Author profile


born
Chennai, India

gender
female

website

genre
Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Women & Gender Studies

influences
India


About this author

Padma Venkatraman was born in Chennai, India. When she was young she took a liking toward mathematics, science, and literature. Because she loved numbers, and words, she decided to move to the U.S. and study oceanography.
Padma has had various jobs in oceanography from being the head chief and living in Germany, to a post doctoral researcher at the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She also worked on being a director, teacher for math and science. She then cut back on her writing deciding to pursue a career in writing; her first love.
Padma's fist book was Climbing the Stairs, taking place in 1940 India when the British were ruling and Indians who were loyal to their country wanted freedom.
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Books by Padma Venkatraman

Average rating: 3.82 · 1,181 ratings · 339 reviews · 4 distinct works
Climbing the Stairs
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 1,089 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions
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Island's End
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Women Mathematicians
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008
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Double Stars: The Story of ...
2.0 of 5 stars 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007
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Adults who love Y...: May Non-Series Read - Climbing the Stairs 28 12 May 22, 2010 09:47am  
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Novel Ladies: Your Opinion 31 34 Jun 11, 2010 07:30pm  
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