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Chang-Rae Lee


Korea (b.1965)

Chang-Rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a first-generation Korean American novelist.

Lee was born in Korea in 1965. He emigrated to the United States with his family when he was 3 years old. Raised in Westchester, New York, Lee attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in English and from the University of Oregon with a MFA in writing. He worked as a Wall Street financial analyst for a year before turning to writing full time. Lee teaches writing at Princeton University, where he has served as the director of Princeton's Program in Creative Writing.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Native Speaker (1995)
   A Gesture Life (1999)
   Aloft (2004)
   The Surrendered (2010)
   On Such a Full Sea (2013)
   My Year Abroad (2021)
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Non fiction show
 
Chang-Rae Lee recommends
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Out There (2022)
Kate Folk
"One could fancy Kate Folk as the literary love child of Kafka and Camus and Bradbury, if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of Black Mirror, but that still wouldn't capture the blazing originality and exhilarating weirdness of her writing. From the moment you read these tales, you'll know you're in the presence of a singularly brilliant vision."
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Skinship (2021)
Yoon Choi
"To encounter these achingly truthful, beautiful stories of newcomer Americans is like gazing up at the starry vault of a perfect night sky; it's immediately dazzling and impressive, and yet the closer and deeper you look, the more you appreciate the sheer countless brilliance."
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Saint X (2020)
Alexis Schaitkin
"A kaleidoscopic examination of race and privilege, family and self, told with the propulsive, kinetic focus of a crime thriller."

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Anthologies containing stories by Chang-Rae Lee
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Charlie Chan Is Dead 2 (2004)
At Home in the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction
(Charlie Chan Is Dead, book 2)
edited by
Jessica Hagedorn

Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2011) : The Surrendered


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