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Chang-rae Lee born 1965
Born Seoul, South Korea
A Korean American novelist and professor of English at Princeton University, Chang-rae Lee immigrated to the United States with his family when he was three years old. Language interested him from an early age; he often translated for his Korean-speaking mother. He was inspired by his father, a doctor, who upon their arrival in the United States decided to specialize in psychiatry, a profession requiring excellent English. Lee himself earned a BA in English from Yale and an MFA from the University of Oregon. He began to teach writing while working on his first novel, Native Speaker, published in 1995. The protagonist, a young Korean American man, deals with issues of cultural identity, assimilation, and displacement. Although many of his five novels have dealt with Korean culture, Lee is quick to note that his books are not autobiographical. His 2014 novel, On Such a Full Sea, takes place in a dystopian America.
CYJO (born 1974)
Pigment print, 2006 (printed 2014) |