Editing Jhumpa Lahiri (section)

==Influences==
When Lahiri began "writing seriously", she studied stories by [[James Joyce]], [[Gabriel Garcia Marquez]], [[Anton Chekhov]], [[Flannery O’Connor]], [[Vladimir Nabokov]] and [[Virginia Woolf]] to understand narrative structure and character development. She is "eternally indebted" to [[William Trevor]] and [[Mavis Gallant]].<ref>{{cite web |author=<!-- not stated --> |date=October 31, 2006 |title=Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri |url=https://www.chipublib.org/interview-with-jhumpa-lahiri/ |website=www.chipublib.org |publisher=[[Chicago Public Library]] |access-date=May 2, 2025}}</ref> She also cites [[Dante]] and [[Horace]] as influences.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Beard |first=Alison |date=May 2022 |title=Life’s Work: An Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri |url=https://hbr.org/2022/05/lifes-work-an-interview-with-jhumpa-lahiri|magazine=[[Harvard Business Review]] |access-date=May 2, 2025}}</ref> She also cited short story writers Chekhov, [[Alice Munro]], [[William Trevor]] and [[Mavis Gallant]].<ref name="telegraph india">{{cite magazine |author=<!-- not stated --> |date=January 24, 2014 |title=The outsider's experience is my experience. Now I am used to it. I accept it: Jhumpa|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/the-outsider-s-experience-is-my-experience-now-i-am-used-to-it-i-accept-it-jhumpa/cid/1288291#goog_rewarded|magazine=[[The Telegraph (India)|The Telegraph India]] |access-date=May 3, 2025}}</ref>