Charles Yu

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Charles Yu (born in 1976 in Los Angeles) is an American, the author of Third Class Superhero (Harcourt, 2006).

His fiction has been published in a number of magazines and literary journals, including Oxford American, The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review and Alaska Quarterly Review, and cited for special mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology XXVIII. He received the 2004 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award for his story, "Class Three Superhero." [1]

In 2007, he was selected by the National Book Foundation as one of its "5 Under 35," a program which highlights the work of the next generation of fiction writers by asking five previous National Book Award fiction Winners and Finalists to select one fiction writer under the age of 35 whose work they find particularly promising and exciting. Yu was selected for the honor by Richard Powers, winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel, The Echo Maker. [2]

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

"Charles Yu's book is actually a piercing survey of American ambition, rich with humor, invention, and humanity...Yu emerges as a first-class talent." - Entertainment Weekly [3]


[edit] References

  1. ^ Imprint Agency, Authors, Charles Yu, http://www.imprintagency.com/authors/yu.htm
  2. ^ National Book Foundation, http://www.nationalbook.org
  3. ^ Entertainment Weekly, http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1516050,00.html