- Min Jin Lee
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Min Jin Lee Hangul 이민진 Revised Romanization Yi Minjin McCune–Reischauer Yi Minjin Min Jin Lee (born 1968) is an American writer whose work frequently deals with Korean American topics.[1]
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Personal
Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea. Lee's family came to the United States in 1976, when she was seven years old. She grew up in Elmhurst, Queens, New York.[1] Her parents owned a wholesale jewelry store there. She studied history at Yale College and law at Georgetown University Law Center. She also worked as a corporate lawyer in New York for several years before becoming a writer. Lee currently lives in New York with her son Sam and her husband Christopher Duffy, who is of half-Japanese descent.
Works
Lee's short story Axis of Happiness won the 2004 Narrative Prize from Narrative Magazine. Another short story by Lee, Motherland, about a family of Koreans in Japan was published in The Missouri Review and won The Peden Prize for Best Short Story. Her debut novel Free Food for Millionaires was published in 2007. Her next novel, tentatively entitled Pachinko, will also be set in Japan.
Lee has also published non-fiction. Her essays include "Will", in Breeder - Real Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers and "Pushing Away the Plate", in To Be Real (edited by Rebecca Walker).
Bibliography
Short stories
- Axis of Happiness (2004)
- Motherland (2004)
Novels
- Free Food for Millionaires (2007), ISBN 978-0446581080.
Accolades
She received the NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story and The Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer.[2] Her non-fiction essays have also been anthologized in To Be Real (Doubleday, 1995) and Breeder (Seal Press 2001), and her short stories have been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts.[3] While at Yale, she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Min Jin Lee", KQED Arts, http://www.kqed.org/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=18060, retrieved 2011-09-29
- ^ Min Jin Lee, About the Author, http://www.minjinlee.com/author/about_min/
- ^ Ginny Too, Interview: Min Jin Lee, Asian American Writer's Workshop, http://www.aaww.org/events_interviews_lee.html
- ^ Hachette Book Group USA, Author: Min Jin Lee, http://narrativemagazine.com/405/min.htm
External links
Categories:- 1968 births
- South Korean emigrants to the United States
- American writers of Korean descent
- Living people
- Yale University alumni
- Georgetown University Law Center alumni
- American novelists
- American short story writers
- American women writers
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