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Richard Crasta was born on 1952 in Bengaluru, India, is a Writer. Discover Richard Crasta's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?
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In 2000, he published Impressing the Whites. Five years later, he published two other books, What We All Need, entirely his own, and Fathers, Rebels and Dreamers, compiled with two of his Mangalorean friends Arunachalam Kumar, conservationist, and Ralph Nazareth, poet and professor. In 2008, he published The Killing of an Author, a literary and publishing autobiography and critique of the publishing industry. He has recently published a few other books as digital books on Amazon and other platforms, and a few books as paperbacks on Amazon Createspace and Lulu, and is working on seven books in progress.
A collection of humorous, political, personal, and satirical essays titled Beauty Queens, Children and the Death of Sex, appeared in India in 1997. Finally, Crasta edited and contributed to essays Eaten by the Japanese: The Memoirs of an Unknown Indian Soldier, by John Baptist Crasta, his father, in India in 1998. In the 1998 U.S. edition, and in one or two European translations of his novel, he used the name Avatar Prabhu, reverting to Richard Crasta in 2000.
Although Crasta wrote his first 12,000 word novel at the age of 10, he did not consider himself a writer until many years later when he wrote the first two chapters of his first novel, and felt that he had found his voice. He began his novel The Revised Kamasutra: A Novel of Colonialism and Desire while taking courses at Columbia University. After more than eight years of work, The Revised Kamasutra appeared in India in 1993. Subsequent editions appeared in Britain, the United States, Germany, Italy, and a few other countries.
He completed his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics, History and Political Science from the University of Mysore in 1972. He was eventually accepted into the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), through which he became the Assistant Commissioner and Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Chickballapur Subdivision in Kolar district and Belgaum Subdivision in Belgaum district. Later, he became Special Deputy Commissioner of Shimoga district. However, this position suited him neither professionally nor socially as a creative writer. He later served in the IAS for 4 years. Crasta travelled to the United States in 1979, enrolling in the American University in Washington, D.C.. He worked for a New York literary agency and taught English at a New York college through 1981, and completed his Master of Arts (MA) degree in Literature and Communication. Crasta emigrated to New York City in the United States in 1984. Crasta received his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 1987.
Richard had a strict middle-class Catholic upbringing and grew up in Mangalore in the 1960s and early 1970s. He began writing when he was ten. He wrote a 12,000 word novel in which the hero was a composite of John F. Kennedy and Robin Hood. Writing was just an outlet for his fantasies, which he used to escape his real life. An important factor in his development was the church and the convent school to which he was sent as a boy, and the secondary school of his adolescence.