Celeste Ng

Quick Facts

Full Name	Celeste Ng
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jul 30, 1980(1980-07-30)
Age	44
Birthplace	Pittsburgh
Country	United States
Horoscope	Leo

Celeste Ng Biography

Celeste Ng is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on July 30, 1980 in Pittsburgh, United States. Her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You: A Novel, is a literary thriller that focuses on an American family in 1970s Ohio. The novel had four drafts and one revision before completion, which took 6 years. While working on her first novel, Celeste Ng stated that she pulled from her own experiences of racism as well as her family and friends. The book, which the Los Angeles Times described as an “excellent first novel about family, love, and ambition,” won Amazon book of the year in 2014 and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2014. Everything I Never Told You has also translated into 15 languages.

Ng was a recipient of the Pushcart Prize in 2012 for her story Girls, At Play. Ng’s fiction has appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Subtropics, and more. Her essays have appeared in Kenyon Review Online, The Millions, and elsewhere. Ng taught writing at the University of Michigan, and she has also taught at Grub Street in Boston. Ng also was an editor of blogs at the website Fiction Writers Review for three years.

Ng’s second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, is set in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and follows two families, one being a mother and daughter, that challenges the boundaries in the town. The novel was developed into a 2020 Hulu miniseries of the same name starring and executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington; Ng also serves as one of the show’s producers.

Celeste Ng was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Celeste Ng’s parents moved from Hong Kong in the late 60s. Her father, who died in 2004, was a physicist at NASA in the John H Glenn Research Center (formally known as the NASA Lewis Research Center). Celeste’s mother was a chemist who taught at Cleveland State University.

Celeste Ng Net Worth

Celeste Ng is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Celeste Ng 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Celeste Ng (Chinese: 伍綺詩 ) (born July 30, 1980) is an American writer and novelist. She has released many short stories that have been published in a variety of literary journals. Ng’s first novel, Everything I Never Told You, was released on June 26, 2014 and has won many awards, such as Amazon Book of the Year as well as praise from critics. Ng’s short story Girls at Play won a Pushcart Prize in 2012, and was a 2015 recipient of the Alex Awards. Her most recent novel is Little Fires Everywhere. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020.

When Ng was ten she moved from Pittsburgh to Shaker Heights, Ohio with her parents and sister (who is now an engineer). She attended the schools in the Shaker Heights City School District, from Woodbury elementary all the way up to Shaker Heights High School. While attending Shaker Heights High School, Ng was involved with the student group on race relations for three years as well as being a co-editor of the school’s literary magazine, Semanteme. She graduated from high school in 1998.

After graduating from high school, Ng went on to study English at Harvard University. She then attended graduate school at University of Michigan, where she earned her Master of Fine Arts in writing, now the Helen Zell Writers’ Program. While attending the University of Michigan, Ng won the Hopwood Award for her short story, What Passes Over.

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Who is Celeste Ng Dating?

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Celeste Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Celeste Ng celebrates birthday on July 30 of every year.

What nationality is Celeste Ng?

American

What is Celeste Ng known for?

Celeste Ng is the author of the novels Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere , both of which were New York Times bestsellers, a New York Times Notable Book, and Amazon’s #1 and #2 Best Book of the Year for 2014 and 2017, respectively.

Is Little Fires Everywhere a true story?

Simply put, no: The events of Little Fires Everywhere are fictional. However, every part of this novel is informed by Ng’s childhood growing up in Shaker Heights, a planned community located eight miles from Cleveland.

Which Celeste Ng book should I read first?

We propose the following publication order when reading Celeste Ng’s Short Stories books: One Story Collected: Stories from the Literary Debutantes (2014) Six Shorts 2017: The Finalists for the Sunday Times (2017) Jennifer Egan Manhattan Beach, and Celeste Ng Little Fires Everywhere: Thalia Book Club (2018)