Biography
Min Jin Lee is a recipient of fiction fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is the author of novels, “Free Food for Millionaires” and “Pachinko,” a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and a New York Times 10 Best Books. Her writings have appeared in The New Yorker, NPR’s Selected Shorts, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Times of London, Food & Wine, Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal. Lee was named as an Adweek Creative 100 for being one of the “10 Writers and Editors Who are Changing the National Conversation” and a Frederick Douglass 200. She is a writer-in-residence at Amherst College and serves as a trustee of PEN America and a director of the Authors Guild. She is currently at work on “Name Recognition: A Memoir of Visibility and Voice” and is researching and writing her third novel, “American Hagwon,” which will complete The Koreans trilogy.