Susan Choi

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Susan Choi
Born	Indiana, United States
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American
Genres	Fiction
www.susanchoi.com

Susan Choi (born 1969) is an American novelist. Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana to a Korean father and the American daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. When she was nine years old, her parents divorced. She and her mother moved to Houston, Texas. Choi earned a B.A. in Literature from Yale University (1990) and an M.F.A. from Cornell University. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.^[1]

After receiving her graduate degree, she worked for The New Yorker as a fact checker.

Choi 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. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her historical fiction novel, American Woman. In 2010, she won the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award.^[2]

With David Remnick, she edited an anthology of short fiction entitled Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker. Choi's second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her newest novel is A Person of Interest, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2009.

Awards and grants

Asian American Literary Award for Fiction for The Foreign Student
Steven Turner Award for The Foreign Student
Barnes & Noble Discover Award finalist for The Foreign Student
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient (2001)
Pulitzer Prize finalist 2004 for American Woman
New York Public Library Young Lions Award finalist 2004 for American Woman
Guggenheim Fellow (2004).
PEN/W.G. Sebald Award (2010)

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
A Person of Interest (2008), ISBN 978-0-670-01846-8
My Education (2013), ISBN 0670024902

References

↑ Choi, Susan (2004). American Woman. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc. pp. About the Author.
↑ PEN American Center Names Award Winners

External links

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Persondata
Name	Choi, Susan
Alternative names
Short description	American novelist
Date of birth	1969
Place of birth	Indiana, United States
Date of death
Place of death

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