Susan Choi

Susan Choi

Susan Choi (born 1969 in South Bend , Indiana ) is an American writer.

Life

Choi has a Korean father and an American mother of Jewish origin. After their parents divorced, she moved to Houston with her mother . Choi studied literature at Yale University (BA, 1990) and Cornell University (MFA). After graduating, she worked as a fact checker at The New Yorker . She teaches creative writing at Yale University. She is married to journalist Pete Wells and lives in Brooklyn .

Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student , was published in 1998 and won the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction . With David Remnick she edited an anthology of short stories Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker . For her second novel American Woman , she researched the activist Wendy Yoshimura , the novel was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 . Her novel A Person of Interest was a finalist in the 2009 PEN / Faulkner Award. In 2019, Choi received the National Book Award for True Excersise .

Works

• The Foreign Student . 1998 ISBN 0-06-019149-X
• with David Remnick (Ed.): Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker . 2000 ISBN 0-375-50356-0
• American woman . 2003 ISBN 0-06-054221-7
• A person of interest . 2008 ISBN 978-0-670-01846-8
  • Repent . Translation by Annette Hahn. Berlin: Structure, 2008 ISBN 978-3-351-03239-5
• My Education . 2013 ISBN 0-67-002490-2
• Trust Exercise . 2019 ISBN 978-1-250-22202-2
• with John Rocco : Camp Tiger . Picture book. 2019 ISBN 978-0-399-17329-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Susan Choi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Susan Choi in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Susan Choi at perlentaucher.de
• Susan Choi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Susan Choi , website
• Susan Choi , at Yale

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Literature Awards 2019. In: Literature Award Winner . Retrieved December 13, 2019 .