Knife

 Salman Rushdie is the author of Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder. He was also the author of The Satanic Verses for which, in 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini, the ruler in Iraq, put a fatwa on his head for what he wrote. Salman was born in India and education in Britain. After the Iraq decision to declare a fatwa he knew what fear was. He decided the freedom of speech was more important and did not live in fear for his life. He went out in public. He continued to write books. In 2022, at the time of the attack, he was living with his wife in New York City. He went to a writer's in Chautauqua, New York which is close to the Pennsylvania line. He writes detailed description of his attack and all his injuries. He is grateful to the medics and helicopter medics who saved his life. He was not expected to live at first. He writes about the fears of his wife and his children and his friends. He had one son living in England. His son had a fear of flying so he took a ship from England to New York City. He writes about his doctors and nurses and physical therapists. He even writes imaginary conversations he has with his assailant. After his attack he did hire protection services for a time. After the hospital he stayed at a friend's empty apartment because there were too many reporters hanging around his apartment and his hospital. I think the book was his way of processing what happened.