5 Things To Know About Salman Rushdie
Trigger warning: This article contains information about graphic violence. The Indian-born author was scheduled to deliver a talk at the Chautauqua Institution event. He had sat down onstage with the discussion’s moderator, Henry Reese, to discuss the United States giving asylum to artists in exile, when the attacker rushed the stage and stabbed him several times in the neck and abdomen. The stunned attendees of the event struggled to wrest the attacker from Rushdie, who had fallen to the floor as the man was determined to continue the attack....