Ha Jin

Award-winning poet and fiction writer Ha Jin, who had come to the U.S. to earn his doctorate in English, decided to stay when the Tiananmen Square massacre occurred in China in 1989. He wrote several books of poetry and fiction before his 1999 novel based on China, Waiting, won both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Writing and teaching at Boston University, he continues to publish books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. His most recent is the 2011 novel Nanjing Requiem. Updated 2012