[1] Nahid Rachlin was born June 6, 1950, in Abadan, Iran, the eighth of ten children (2 of whom had died before her birth) to Manoochehr and Mohtaram Bozorgmehri.
Brought up by her mother's older from when she was not yet one until she was nine years old when her father who had been a circuit judge resigned and started a private practice.
Pari underwent arranged marriage to a physically abusive older man, and then lost access to her son after she sued for divorce.
Pari remarried, but suffered episodes of mental breakdown for which she was institutionalised, and died young after a home accident.
In 1976 Rachlin returned to Iran for the first time in twelve years, drawing on the experience for her debut novel Foreigner.