Chang-Rae Lee
Chang-rae Lee | |
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Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Asian American Literary Awards | |
Spouse | Michelle Branca |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 이창래 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | I Chang-rae |
McCune–Reischauer | Yi Ch'ang-rae |
Chang-rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a
Early life
Lee was born in South Korea in 1965 to Young Yong and Inja Hong Lee. He immigrated to the United States with his family when he was 3 years old [2] to join his father, who was then a psychiatric resident and later established a successful practice in Westchester County, New York.[3] In a 1999 interview with Ferdinand M. De Leon, Lee described his childhood as "a standard suburban American upbringing," in which he attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, before earning a B.A. in English at Yale University in 1987.[3] After working as an equities analyst on Wall Street for a year, he enrolled at the University of Oregon. With the manuscript for Native Speaker as his thesis, he received a master of fine arts degree in writing in 1993 and became an assistant professor of creative writing at the university. 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]
Career
Lee's first novel,
In 2016, Lee joined the faculty of Stanford University, where he is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of English.[11] He previously taught creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.[12] He was also a Shinhan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yonsei University in South Korea.[12]
Lee has compared his writing process to
Major themes
Lee explores issues central to the
Awards and honors
In 2015, the American Library Association included On Such a Full Sea on their list of the year's Notable Books.[15]
Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
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1995 | Native Speaker | Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award | Winner | [16] |
1996 | Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel | Winner | [17] | |
2000 | A Gesture Life | NAIBA Book of the Year Award | Winner | [18] |
2000 | Anisfield-Wolf Book Award | Winner | [19] | |
2011 | The Surrendered | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | Finalist | [20] |
2011 | Dayton Literary Peace Prize | Winner | [21] | |
2017 | John Dos Passos Prize for Literature
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Winner | [22] |
Bibliography
Books
- Native Speaker (Riverhead, 1994)
- A Gesture Life (Riverhead, 1999)
- Aloft (Riverhead, 2004)
- The Surrendered (Riverhead, 2010)[23]
- On Such a Full Sea (Riverhead, 2014)
- My Year Abroad (2021)[24]
Articles
- "The Faintest Echo of Our Language". JSTOR 40242683.
- "Coming Home Again". The New Yorker. October 9, 1995.
- "Gut Course: Manhattan". The New Yorker. 88 (38): 72–73. December 3, 2012.
- "Sea Urchin". First Tastes. August 19 & 26, 2002. The New Yorker. 97 (27): 39. September 6, 2021.[25]
Screenplays
- Coming Home Again (co-written and directed by Wayne Wang, 2019)
References
- ^ a b Minzesheimer, Bob (March 16, 2010). "Chang-rae Lee's 'Surrendered': Unrelentingly sad yet lovely". USA Today. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
- ^ a b Garner, Dwight (September 5, 1999). "Interview: Adopted Voice". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 20 July 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
- ^ a b c d e Wu, Yung-Hsing. "Chang-rae Lee." Asian- American Writers. Ed. Deborah L. Madsen. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 312. Literature Resource Center. Web. 19 Apr. 2014.
- ^ Kakutani, Michiko (August 31, 1999). "'A Gesture Life': Fitting In Perfectly on the Outside, but Lost Within". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 17 January 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
- ^ The Asian American Writers' Workshop - Awards Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Dean, Tamsin (June 21, 2004). "High and dry". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
- ^ APALA Past Award Winners Archived February 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners Fiction". Archived from the original on 2012-08-23. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
- ^ Leyshon, Cressida (January 7, 2014). "'The Chorus of "We": An Interview With Chang-rae Lee". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
- ^ "National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2014". National Book Critics Circle. January 19, 2015. Archived from the original on January 22, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
- ^ "Chang-rae Lee | Department of English". english.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-06-11. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- ^ a b "Chang-rae Lee | Penguin Random House". www.penguinrandomhouse.com. Archived from the original on 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- ^ Fassler, Joe. "Why Novel-Writing Is Like Spelunking: An Interview with Chang-rae Lee". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- ^ Matibag, E.(2010). Asian american art and literature. In Encyclopedia of American Studies. Retrieved from http://0-search.credoreference.com.library.simmons.edu/content/entry/jhueas/asian_american_art_and_literature/0
- ^ Wood, Leighann (2015-02-01). "2015 Notable Books announced: Year's best in fiction, nonfiction and poetry". American Library Association. Archived from the original on 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- ^ "Barnes & Noble Names Winners of the 27th Annual Discover Awards". Authorlink. Archived from the original on 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- ^ "List of PEN/Hemingway Winners". The Hemingway Society. Archived from the original on 2022-01-07. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- ^ "NAIBA Book of the Year Awards". New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association. Archived from the original on 2013-11-13. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Archivedfrom the original on 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- ^ "Finalist: The Surrendered, by Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead Books)". Pulitzer Prize. Archived from the original on 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- ^ Morland, D. Verne. "Chang-rae Lee, 2011 Fiction Winner". Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Archived from the original on 2017-10-09. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- ^ "The John Dos Passos Prize for Literature: Past Recipients and Select Works". Longwood University. Archived from the original on 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
- ^ Wood, James (15 March 2010). "A Critic at Large: Keeping it Real". The New Yorker. Vol. 86, no. 4. pp. 71–75. Archived from the original on 23 March 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
- ^ "'My Year Abroad' Is A Fun Excursion — Just A Little Light On Substance". NPR.org. Archived from the original on 2021-02-02. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
- ^ Online version is titled "How Sea Urchin Tastes". First published in the August 19&26, 2002 issue.
External links
- "Mute in an English-Only World", an essay by Lee in the anthology Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America, at Google Books
- Interview with Lee at Words on a Wire
- [1] KGNU Claudia Cragg radio interview with Chang-Rae Lee, March 2011, on 'The Surrendered'.