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Susan Choi (born 1969) is an American novelist. She is the author of several acclaimed novels, including The Foreign Student (1998), American Woman (2003), and Trust Exercise (2019), which won the National Book Award for Fiction. Choi teaches creative writing at Yale University.
Early life and education
Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana to a Korean father and a Jewish mother. She attended public schools. When she was nine years old, her parents divorced. She and her mother moved to Houston, Texas, where she attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Choi earned a B.A. in Literature from Yale University (1990) and an M.F.A. from Cornell University.
Career
After receiving her graduate degree, she worked for The New Yorker as a fact checker. At this job she met her husband, Pete Wells; they separated in 2016 but continue to share a house in Brooklyn and co-parent their two sons.
Choi published her first novel, The Foreign Student (1998). It won the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction and was a finalist of the Discover Great New Writers Award at Barnes & Noble. Her second novel, American Woman (2003), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in literature. In 2010, she won the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for A Person of Interest, which was also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2009. In 2014, her fourth novel, My Education, won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction.
With David Remnick, Choi edited an anthology of short fiction entitled Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker. Her latest novel is Trust Exercise (2019), which won the National Book Award for Fiction.
As of May 2018, Choi is working on a novel employing conventions of memoir and reportage that "takes up the question of national identity, and the extent to which it coincides or does not coincide with ethnic and with cultural identity."
She teaches creative writing at Yale University.
Awards and grants
Asian American Literary Award for Fiction for The Foreign Student
Steven Turner Award for The Foreign Student
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient (2001)
Guggenheim Fellow (2004).
PEN/W.G. Sebald Award (2010) for A Person of Interest
Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction for My Education (2014)
National Book Award for Fiction for Trust Exercise (2019)
Sunday Times Short Story Award (2021) for Flashlight
Bibliography
= Novels
=The Foreign Student (1998), ISBN 0-06-019149-X
American Woman (2003), ISBN 0-06-054221-7
A Person of Interest (2008), ISBN 978-0-670-01846-8
My Education (2013), ISBN 0670024902
Trust Exercise (novel) (2019), ISBN 9781250222022
= Children's books
=Camp Tiger (picture book, illustrated by John Rocco) (2019), ISBN 9780399173295
= Short fiction
=Anthologies (edited)
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000), ISBN 0-375-50356-0 (ed. with David Remnick)
Stories
See also
Korean Americans in New York City
Literary license
References
Further reading
Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (2000-01-01). Asian American novelists a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
"Susan Choi". Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, "Indiana" essay.
External links
Official website
Excerpt from Susan Choi's fiction in Guernica (guernicamag.com)
Goldsea.com - interview with Susan Choi (2003)
New York Public Library Young Lions Award finalist 2004
link to picture of Susan Choi
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