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.
