Books
She is the author of May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India, a study of women's roles in 1980s Indian society, which was a national bestseller, and The Secrets of Mariko, a book focusing on the inner workings of a Japanese family during a year in the early 1990s.
In 2007, Bumiller went on leave to write a biography of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, published by Random House in December 2007. During that period, she was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. The book, which was based on extensive interviews with Rice as well as 150 other sources, portrays Rice catering to Bush's desire to invade Iraq, and it describes her being taken completely by surprise when Hamas won the Palestinian elections. She returned to the paper full time in October 2007.
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