Susan Choi
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Susan Choi (born 1969) is an American novelist. Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana to a Korean father and the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants. When she was nine years old her parents divorced and she and her mother moved to Houston, Texas; she holds a B.A. in Literature from Yale University (1990) and an M.F.A. from Cornell University.
After Cornell she worked for the The New Yorker as a fact checker.
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.
Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Her newest novel is A Person of Interest.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York City with her husband Pete Wells, the editor of the dining section of The New York Times, and their two sons, Dexter and Elliot.
[edit] 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
- Pulitzer Prize finalist 2004 for American Woman
- New York Public Library Young Lions Award finalist 2004 for American Woman
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient (2001)
- Guggenheim Fellow (2004).
[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
- A Person of Interest (2008), ISBN 978-0-670-01846-8
