| Thu | ||
|---|---|---|
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
CHANG-RAE LEE: President's Writers-in-Residence Series, Feb 9th
Chang-rae Lee is the author of the novels Native Speaker (1995), A Gesture Life (1999), Aloft (2004), and most recently, The Surrendered,
which was a 2011 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. He is the recipient of
numerous awards, including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the
American Book Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, ALA Notable
Book of the Year Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award, the
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, and the NAIBA Book Award for
Fiction. Having emigrated to the United States from Korea at the age of
three, Lee says he is “fascinated by people who find themselves in
positions of alienation or some kind of cultural dissonance.” Lee is a
Professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University,
where he teaches creative writing.
| ||
