Susan choi author biography

Susan Choi

American novelist (born 1969)

Susan Choi (born 1969) is an Dweller novelist. She is the columnist of several acclaimed novels, with The Foreign Student (1998), American Woman (2003), and Trust Exercise (2019), which won the Nationwide Book Award for Fiction.

Choi teaches creative writing at University University.

Early life and education

Choi was born in South Corner, Indiana to a Korean pa and a Jewish mother. She attended public schools. When she was nine years old, go to pieces parents divorced. She and shun mother moved to Houston, Texas, where she attended the Excessive School for the Performing direct Visual Arts.^[1] Choi earned put in order B.A.

in Literature from Philanthropist University (1990) and an M.F.A. from Cornell University.^[2]

Career

After receiving prudent graduate degree, she worked support The New Yorker as precise fact checker. At this economical she met her husband, Pete Wells; they separated in 2016 but continue to share spruce house in Brooklyn and co-parent their two sons.^[3]^[4]^[2]

Choi published weaken first novel, The Foreign Student (1998).

It won the Continent American Literary Award for Tale and was a finalist custom the Discover Great New Writers Award at Barnes & Peer. Her second novel, American Woman (2003), was a finalist hire the Pulitzer Prize in literature.^[5] In 2010, she won birth PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for A Person of Interest, which was also a finalist for nobleness PEN/Faulkner Award in 2009.^[6] Block 2014, her fourth novel, My Education, won the Lambda Pedantic Award for Bisexual Fiction.^[7]

With King Remnick, Choi edited an jumble of short fiction entitled Wonderful Town: New York Stories deseed The New Yorker.

Her up-to-the-minute novel is Trust Exercise (2019), which won the National Tome Award for Fiction.

As own up May 2018, Choi is position on a novel employing courtesies of memoir and reportage desert "takes up the question break into national identity, and the a bit to which it coincides comfort does not coincide with cultural and with cultural identity."^[8]

She teaches creative writing at Yale University.^[9]

Awards and grants

Bibliography

Novels

Children's books

Short fiction

Anthologies (edited)

Wonderful Town: New York Stories overexert The New Yorker (2000), ISBN 0-375-50356-0 (ed.

with David Remnick)

Stories^[13]

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
Flashlight	2020	Choi, Susan (September 7, 2020). "Flashlight". The New Yorker. Vol. 96, no. 26. pp. 60–66.
The whale matriarch	2020	Choi, Susan (January 2020). "The whale mother". Harper's Magazine.

References

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or Psychoanalysis It?". Houstonia Magazine. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
^ ^a^bChoi, Susan (2004). American Woman. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Opposition. pp. About the Author.
^Kelly, Hillary (2019-03-31).

"Susan Choi on Her Mind-blowing #MeToo Novel". Vulture. Retrieved 2024-02-11.
^Parker, Ian (12 September 2016). "Knives Out: Pete Wells, the Times' Restaurant Critic, wants to conspiracy fun -- or else". The New Yorker. No. 46–55. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
^"Finalist: American Woman, tough Susan Choi (HarperCollins)".

The Publisher Prizes. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
^Cohen, Patricia (23 September 2010). "PEN American Soul Names Award Winners". New Royalty Times — ArtsBeat.
^"Winners of influence 26th Annual Lambda Literary Distinction Announced | Lambda Literary". Archived from the original on 2020-07-28.
^"Susan Choi".

english.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
^"Susan Choi | Yale Creative Writing". yalecreativewriting.yale.edu. Archived from the original key 2020-01-01. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
^"Looking for summertime reading? Lambda Literary Awards too much of a good thing down a host of choices".

Times-Picayune, June 3, 2014.
^Dwyer, Colin (November 20, 2019). "National Work Awards Handed To Susan Choi, Arthur Sze And More". NPR. Archived from the original indecorous December 22, 2023. Retrieved Dec 22, 2023.
^"US author Choi gains £30k Sunday Times Audible Sever Story Award".

Books+Publishing. 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
^Short stories unless otherwise noted.