Salman Rushdie is best known for his fifth book, The Satanic Verses, which prompted a fatwa against him in 1989. But over the past 40 years he has published 16 others, including Midnight’s Children—the winner of three Booker awards—and his latest novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights. A disciplined worker by day and a socializer by night, he says he strives for writing that “stands the test of time.”
A version of this article appeared in the September 2015 issue (p.128) of Harvard Business Review.