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Susan Choi

Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Creative Writing

Campus Address spacer ............ spacer Room 214, 185 Nassau Street
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Email ............ sc2@princeton.edu


Susan Choi was born in Indiana and raised in Texas. Her first novel, The Foreign Student, was published by HarperCollins in 1998 and awarded the Asian-American Literary Award and the Steven Turner Award for the Novel in 1999. In 2000 Random House published Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker, an anthology of New Yorker fiction she co-edited with David Remnick. Her second novel, American Woman, was published by HarperCollins in 2003 and was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award and for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her nonfiction essays and interviews have appeared in publications including Vogue, Tin House, The Believer, and The New York Times. She has taught writing and literature at Yale, Columbia, Cornell, and Yeshiva University, among other places, and was most recently the Harmon Writer in Residency at Baruch College, a post previously held by writers including Tony Kushner and Lorrie Moore. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Pete Wells, and their son, Dexter. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, is forthcoming from Viking

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