Chang-Rae Lee
Chang-rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. He was previously Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton and director of Princeton's Program in Creative Writing. Lee's f
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Chang-rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. He was previously Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton and director of Princeton's Program in Creative Writing. Lee's first novel, Native Speaker (1995), won numerous awards including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. In 1999, he published his second novel, A Gesture Life. This elaborated on his themes of identity and assimilation through the narrative, it received the Asian-American Literary Award. His 2004 novel Aloft received 2006 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in the Adult Fiction category. His 2010 novel The Surrendered won the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a nominated finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Full Sea (2014) was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award.
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