Chang-Rae Lee

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Chang-rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a Korean-American novelist and a Stanford University professor of creative writing.

He was previously Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton and director of Princeton's Program in Creative Writing.

Early life

Lee was born in South Korea in 1965 to Young Yong and Inja Hong Lee. When he was 3 years old, he and his family immigrated to the United States to help his father, who was then a psychiatric patient, and later established a fruitful practice in Westchester County, New York. In a 1999 interview with Ferdinand M. De Leon, Lee compared his childhood to "a typical suburban American upbringing" in which he attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, before receiving a B.A. In 1987, Yale University began teaching English in English. He attended the University of Oregon after being a Wall Street equities analyst for a year. He earned a master of fine arts degree in writing in 1993 and became an assistant professor of creative writing at the university, with the manuscript for Native Speaker as his thesis. On June 19, 1993, Lee married architect Michelle Branca, with whom he has two children. Lee was recruited to teach and lecture in the City University of New York's prestigious creative-writing program due to the success of his debut novel, Native Speaker.

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Career

Native Speaker (1995), Lee's first book, received numerous awards, including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. The novel, centered on a Korean-American industrial spy, delves into themes of alienation and betrayal among immigrants and first-generation Americans in their attempts to integrate in American life. He published A Gesture Life, his second book, in 1999. Through the story of an elderly Japanese immigrant in the United States who was born in Korea but later adopted to a Japanese family and remembers treating Korean comfort women during World War II, this elaborated on his concepts of identity and assimilation. Lee was given the Asian-American Literary Award for this book. Critical reviews and publications about Lee's first protagonist, who is not Asian American, were mixed, but a disengaged and isolated Italian-American suburbanite is left to deal with his world. In the Adult Fiction category, it received the 2006 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. The Surrendered, a 2010 novel by Peter Lavigne, was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. On Such a Full Sea (2014), Lee's new book, On a Desaffect Future, a dystopian future version of Baltimore, Maryland, in which the main character, Fan, is a Chinese-American labourer working as a diver in a fish farm. It was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Lee joined Stanford University's faculty in 2016, where he is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of English. He worked in Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Performing Arts. He served as a Shinhan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yonsei University in South Korea.

Lee likened his writing process to spelunking. "You're on the right track for yourself." However, oh, there are so many points at which you may well agree, I'm going down the wrong hole here. And I can't get back to the right hole."

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Awards and honors

• 1995 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Native Speaker
• 1996 Pen/Hemingway Award for Native Speaker
• NAIBA Book of the Year Award for A Gesture Life
• 2000 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for A Gesture Life
• 2011 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for The Surrendered
• 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for The Surrendered
• 2015 ALA Notable Book of the Year for On Such A Full Sea
• 2017 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature