Everyone in the store is really looking forward to Monday, March 22, 2010. Chang-rae Lee is coming to Lemuria!! He will be signing (5 pm) and reading (5:30 pm) his new novel, The Surrendered. He has never been to the bookstore before so I thought I would take a little time and introduce him to you.
Chang-rae Lee was born in Seoul, Korea in 1965 and immigrated to the United States in 1968 with his family. Lee was raised in the suburbs of New York and graduated from Yale University in 1987. He began his career as a equities analyst on Wall Street but quickly realized that writing was his passion. He soon finished an unpublished novel, Agnew Belittlehead, and was accepted to the creative writing program at the University of Oregon where he earned his MFA in 1993. He has since published four novels, Native Speaker (1995), A Gesture Life (1999), Aloft (2004) and The Surrendered (2010). He has won various awards throughout his writing career including: “New Voices Award,” Oregon Books Award, ALA Notable Book Award, American Book Award, and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. In 1999, The New Yorker named him one of the 20 best American writers under the age of 40.
Here is a video of Chang-rae Lee discussing The Surrendered with WNYC on the The Leonard Lopate Show:
You don’t want to miss this event and we look forward to seeing you on March 22!!
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