rushdie himself, then living in london, went into hiding, with police protection, for 9 years. he would write about that period in his first memoir, joseph anton. >> to my surprise, i've now written two autobiographical books. when i became a writer, i had zero interest in autobiography. but then i acquired the problem of an interesting life. jeffrey but for the past 20 : years, now in new york, he's lived a fairly normal life, often in public, including with us on the staten island ferry when we talked of his 2015 novel, two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights. he had moved on. >> i thought, okay, this, this is behind me. the world moves on. so much else to be, for people to be upset about. i mean, like, this kid, 24, he wasn't even born at the time that that trouble happened. jeffrey: this kid, hadi matar. born in california, living in new jersey before the attack, now awaiting trial for attempted murder. in his book, rushdie chose not to name him, calling him the a for my assailant, my would assassin, the asinine man who made assumptions about me. and, in a very rush