Susan Choi
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Susan Choi (born 1969) is a novelist born in Indiana to a Korean father and a Russian-Jewish mother. Choi was raised in Texas; she holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. from Cornell University. 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. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York City. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
She is married to Pete Wells, the editor of the dining section of The New York Times, and has one child.
[edit] 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
