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Chang-rae Lee Biography Author and professor Born July 29, 1965, in Seoul, South Korea; immigrated to the United States, 1968; son of Young Yong (a psychiatrist) and Inja (Hong) Lee; married Michelle Branca (an architect), June 19, 1993; children: Annika, Eva.
On 19 June 1993 Lee married architect Michelle Branca, with whom he has two daughters. [3] The success of his debut novel, Native Speaker, led Lee to move to Hunter College of the City University of New York, where he was hired to direct and teach in the prestigious creative-writing program. [3]
24 lut 2021 · In My Year Abroad, Chang-rae Lee’s sixth novel, narrator Tiller Bardmon is an unambitious college student, drifting aimlessly through a suburban American existence, when he meets Pong Lou, an immigrant entrepreneur who upends Tiller’s life by taking him under his wing.
19 paź 2017 · Lee moved with his family from South Korea to the United States when he was three, and grew up in Westchester County, NY. His work explores themes of immigration, identity, alienation, and the intricacies of the Asian-American experience.
Chang-rae Lee is the author of six novels: Native Speaker (1995), A Gesture Life (1999), Aloft (2004), The Surrendered (2010), which was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, On Such a Full Sea (2014) which was a Finalist for the NBCC and won the Heartland Fiction Prize, and his most recent novel, My Year Abroad (2021). His works have won numerous ...
A second-generation Korean American, Lee immigrated to the United States with his family when he was 3 years old. He was raised in Westchester, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a degree in English and from the University of Oregon with a MFA in writing.
Biography. Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, as well as My Year Abroad , On Such a Full Sea, A Gesture Life , Aloft, and The Surrendered, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
