Chang-Rae Lee

Quick Facts

Full Name	Chang-Rae Lee
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jul 29, 1965(1965-07-29)
Age	59
Birthplace	Seoul
Country	South Korea
Horoscope	Cancer

Chang-Rae Lee Biography

Chang-Rae Lee is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on July 29, 1965 in Seoul, South Korea. The Korean American novelist and professor He is most well-known for his spy novel of 1995, Native Speaker. In the past he was Director of the Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program.

The novel he wrote, Native Speaker, won the PEN/Hemingway Award, an honor that is named in honor of the writer His novel, Native Speaker, won the PEN/Hemingway Award, an honor named after author Ernest Hemingway..

Lee was born in South Korea in 1965 to Young Yong and Inja Hong Lee. He emigrated to the United States with his family when he was 3 years old to join his father, who was then a psychiatric resident and later established a successful practice in Westchester County, New York. In a 1999 interview with Ferdinand M. De Leon, Lee described his childhood as “a standard suburban American upbringing,” in which he attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, before earning a B.A. in English at Yale University in 1987. After working as an equities analyst on Wall Street for a year, he enrolled at the University of Oregon. With the manuscript for Native Speaker as his thesis, he received a master of fine arts degree in writing in 1993 and became an assistant professor of creative writing at the university. On 19 June 1993 Lee married architect Michelle Branca, with whom he has two daughters. The success of his debut novel, Native Speaker, led Lee to move to Hunter College of the City University of New York, where he was hired to direct and teach in the prestigious creative-writing program.

Lee’s first novel, Native Speaker (1995), won numerous awards including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Centered on a Korean-American industrial spy, the novel explores themes of alienation and betrayal as experienced by immigrants and first-generation citizens, in their struggle to assimilate in American life. In 1999, he published his second novel, A Gesture Life. This elaborated on his themes of identity and assimilation through the narrative of an elderly Japanese immigrant in the US who was born in Korea but later adopted to a Japanese family and remembers treating Korean comfort women during World War II. For this book, Lee received the Asian-American Literary Award. His 2004 novel Aloft received mixed notices from the critics and featured Lee’s first protagonist who is not Asian American, but a disengaged and isolated Italian-American suburbanite forced to deal with his world. It received the 2006 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in the Adult Fiction category. His 2010 novel The Surrendered won the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a nominated finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Lee’s most recent novel, On Such a Full Sea (2014) is set in a dystopian future version of the American city of Baltimore, Maryland called B-Mor where the main character, Fan, is a Chinese-American laborer working as a diver in a fish farm. It was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award.

The man was born in South Korea and raised in New York. His wife and he had two daughters.

Chang-Rae Lee Net Worth

Chang-Rae Lee is one of the richest Novelist from South Korea. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chang-Rae Lee 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student of English poetry and the art of creative writing in Yale University and the University of Oregon. In the past, before becoming full time writer He worked as a financial analyst on Wall Street as a financial analyst.

He arrived in America United States when he was three years old.

Chang-rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. He was previously Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton and director of Princeton’s Program in Creative Writing.

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Who is Chang-Rae Lee Dating?

According to our records, Chang-Rae Lee married to Michelle Branca. As of December 1, 2023, Chang-Rae Lee’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Chang-Rae Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Korea. Chang-Rae Lee celebrates birthday on July 29 of every year.

Where did Chang Rae Lee grow up?

Lee moved with his family from South Korea to the United States when he was three, and grew up in Westchester County, NY.

How old is Chang Rae Lee?

56 years (July 29, 1965)

Is Chang Rae Lee Korean?

A second-generation Korean American , Lee immigrated to the United States with his family when he was 3 years old. He was raised in Westchester, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a degree in English and from the University of Oregon with a MFA in writing.

What nationality is Chang Rae Lee?

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Where did Chang Rae Lee go to college?

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