Charles Yu

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Charles Yu is an American, the author of Third Class Hero (Harcourt, 2006)

His fiction has been published in a number of magazines and literary journals, including Oxford Magazine, The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review and Alaska Quarterly Review, cited for special mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology XXVIII, and reprinted in the Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories 2004.

He received the 2004 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award for his story, "Class Three Superhero."

Charles Yu graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia Law School.

"Within these 11 stories, Yu uses language to suggest what language cannot express, as he deals with themes such as the nature of distance, the essence of time and the illusion of self for readers whose attention span has been conditioned more by video games than classic novels."-Kirkus

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