- Susan Choi
Susan Choi (born 1969) is an American
novelist . Choi was born inSouth Bend, Indiana to aKorea n father and the daughter ofRussia n-Jewish immigrants. When she was nine years old her parents divorced and she and her mother moved toHouston, Texas ; she holds a B.A. in Literature from Yale University (1990) and an M.F.A. from Cornell University.After Cornell she worked for the
The New Yorker as a fact checker.She won the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction and was a finalist of the Discover Great New Writers Award at
Barnes & Noble for her first novel, "The Foreign Student".With
David Remnick , she edited an anthology of short fiction entitled "Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker".Her second novel, "American Woman", was a finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize .Her newest novel is "A Person of Interest".
She lives in
Brooklyn ,New York City with her husbandPete Wells , the editor of the dining section of The New York Times, and their two sons, Dexter and Elliot.Awards and Grants
*Asian American Literary Award for Fiction for "The Foreign Student"
*Steven Turner Award for "The Foreign Student"
*Barnes & Noble Discover Award finalist for "The Foreign Student"
*Pulitzer Prize finalist 2004 for "American Woman"
*New York Public Library Young Lions Award finalist 2004 for "American Woman"
*National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient (2001)
*Guggenheim Fellow (2004).Books
*"The Foreign Student" (1998), ISBN 0-06-019149-X
*"Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker" (2000), ISBN 0-375-50356-0 (ed. with David Remnick)
*"American Woman" (2003), ISBN 0-06-054221-7
*"A Person of Interest" (2008), ISBN 978-0-670-01846-8External links
* [http://www.guernicamag.com/fiction/456/a_person_of_interest_a_novel_e/ Excerpt from Susan Choi's fiction in Guernica (guernicamag.com)]
* [http://www.susanchoi.com Official homepage]
* [http://goldsea.com/Personalities/Choisusan/choisusan.html Goldsea.com - interview with Susan Choi (2003)]
* [http://www.nypl.org/press/2004/ylfa2004W.cfm New York Public Library Young Lions Award finalist 2004]
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