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Susan Choi Wiki Information
Susan Choi
(born 1969) is an American novelist. Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana to a Korean father and the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants. When she was nine years old her parents divorced and she and her mother moved to Houston, Texas; she holds a B.A. in Literature from Yale University (1990) and an M.F.A. from Cornell University.
After Cornell she worked for the The New Yorker
as a fact checker.
She won the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction and was a finalist of the Discover Great New Writers Award at Barnes & Noble for her first novel, The Foreign Student
.
With David Remnick, she edited an anthology of short fiction entitled Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker
.
Her second novel, American Woman
, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Her newest novel is A Person of Interest
which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2009.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York City with her husband Pete Wells, the editor of the dining section of The New York Times
, and their two sons, Dexter and Elliot.
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Awards and Grants
- Asian American Literary Award for Fiction for The Foreign Student
- Steven Turner Award for The Foreign Student
- Barnes & Noble Discover Award finalist for The Foreign Student
- Pulitzer Prize finalist 2004 for American Woman
- New York Public Library Young Lions Award finalist 2004 for American Woman
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient (2001)
- Guggenheim Fellow (2004).
Books
- The Foreign Student
(1998), ISBN 0-06-019149-X
- Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker
(2000), ISBN 0-375-50356-0 (ed. with David Remnick)
- American Woman
(2003), ISBN 0-06-054221-7
- A Person of Interest
(2008), ISBN 978-0-670-01846-8
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