Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Njem: A mụrụ Lahiri na London, nwa nwanyị ndị Bengali India si na steeti West Bengal. Ezinụlọ ya kwagara United States mgbe ọ dị afọ abụọ; Lahiri na-ewere onwe ya onye America ma kwuo, "A m amụghị m ebe a, mana enwere m ike ịbụ". Lahiri tolitere na Kingston, Rhode Island, ebe nna ya Amar Lahiri na-arụ ọrụ dị ka onye na-ede akwụkwọ na Mahadum Rhode Island; ọ bụ ihe ndabere maka onye isi na "Kontinenti nke Atọ na nke Ikpeazụ", akụkọ nke na-emechi Interpreter of Maladies. Nne Lahiri chọrọ ka ụmụ ya tolite ma mara ihe nketa Bengali ha, ezinụlọ ya na-agakarịkwa ndị ikwu na Calcutta (nke bụ Kolkata ugbu a). Mgbe ọ malitere ụlọ akwụkwọ ọta akara na Kingston, Rhode Island, onye nkuzi Lahiri kpebiri ịkpọ ya aha ya, Jhumpa, n'ihi na ọ dị mfe ịkpọ ya karịa "aha ya". Lahiri chetara, sị, "Ihere aha m na - eme m mgbe nile.... Ọ na-adị gị ka ị̀ na-akpasu mmadụ iwe nanị n'ihi na ị bụ onye ị bụ". Ọdịiche Lahiri n'ihe banyere njirimara ya bụ ihe mkpali maka ọdịiche nke Gogol, onye isi akụkọ nke akwụkwọ akụkọ ya bụ The Namesake, n'aha ya na-adịghị ahụkebe. N'otu isiokwu dị na magazin bụ́ Newsweek, Lahiri kwuru na ya "na-enwe nrụgide siri ike ịbụ ihe abụọ, iguzosi ike n'ihe nye ụwa ochie na ịbụ onye na-ekwu okwu nke ọma n'ụwa ọhụrụ". Ọtụtụ n'ime ahụmahụ ndị o nwere n'oge ọ bụ nwatakịrị bụ ndị e ji akụkụ abụọ a na-adọpụ ibe ha ama. Mgbe ọ ghọrọ okenye, ọ chọpụtara na ya nwere ike ịbụ akụkụ nke akụkụ abụọ ndị a n'enweghị ihere na mgba nke o nwere mgbe ọ bụ nwata. Lahiri gụsịrị akwụkwọ na South Kingstown High School wee nweta B.A. na akwụkwọ Bekee site na Barnard College nke Mahadum Columbia na 1989.Lahiri mechara nweta ọtụtụ ogo site na Mahadum Boston: M.A. na Bekee, M.F.A. na Creative Writing, M.A. na Comparative Literature, na Ph.D. na Ọmụmụ Renaissance. Akwukwo ya, nke emechara na 1997, bu nke akpọrọ Accursed Palace: The Italian palazzo on the Jacobean stage (1603<unk>1625). Ndị ndụmọdụ ya bụ William Carroll (English) na...  Ajụjụ: Olee mgbe ọ gụsịrị kọleji?
Afọ 1989