Chang-Rae Lee

Born in 1965, award-winning novelist Chang-Rae Lee immigrated to the U.S. at three years old. After working as a Wall Street equities analyst for a year after college, he turned to writing, achieving international fame in 1995 with his first novel Native Speaker, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Since then he has written several novels dealing with identity and the immigrant experience, including The Surrendered, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. He teaches creative writing at Princeton University. Updated 2012