Salman Rushdie has written a memoir based on the time he spent hiding while under a fatwa that sentenced him to death in 1989. His novel -- The Satanic Verses -- was accused by the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini as insulting the prophet Mohammed.

The author then spent more than nine years in hiding. The alias he adopted, Joseph Anton, was based on the first names of two writers he loved: Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov.

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