Gish Jen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gish Jen
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Aug 12, 1955(1955-08-12)
Age	69
Birthplace	Long Island
Country	United States
Horoscope	Leo

Gish Jen Biography

Gish Jen is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on August 12, 1955 in Long Island, United States. Gish Jen is a first- generation Chinese American. Her parents emigrated from China in the 1940s; her mother was from Shanghai and her father was from Yixing. Born in Long Island, New York, she grew up in Queens, then Yonkers, then Scarsdale. Her birth name is Lillian, but during her high school years she acquired the nickname Gish, named for actress Lillian Gish.

Her fourth novel, World and Town, portrays a fragile America, its small towns challenged by globalization, development, fundamentalism, and immigration, as well as the ripples sent out by 9/11. World and Town won the 2011 Massachusetts Book Prize in fiction and was nominated for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Jen’s second work of non-fiction is “The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap,” published in February 2017. This is a provocative study of the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about the self and society and what this means for current debates in art, education, geopolitics, and business. Drawing on stories and personal anecdotes, as well as recent research in cultural psychology, Jen reveals how this difference shapes what we perceive, remember, say, do, and make – in short, how it shapes everything from our ideas about copying and talking in class to the difference between Apple and Alibaba.

Her fifth novel was released in February of 2020 and is titled The Resisters. It is about baseball, class warfare, and a sentient Internet. A related short story was commissioned by the New York Times as part of their Privacy Project and published 1-5-2020.

In 2009, Princeton’s Elaine Showalter devoted much attention to Jen in her survey of American women writers, “A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx.” In an article in The Guardian, Showalter elaborated, including Jen in a list of eight top authors, and pointing out that Jen’s “vision of a multicultural America goes well beyond the angry rants or despairing projections of Roth, DeLillo, McCarthy or other finalists in the Great American Novel competition.” In 2012, Junot Diaz concurred, calling Jen “the Great American Novelist we’re always hearing about.” And in 2000, in a millennial edition of The Times Magazine in the UK, in which figures were asked to name their successors in the 21st century, John Updike picked Jen.

Gish Jen Net Worth

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

Gish Jen (born Lillian Jen; (Chinese: 任璧蓮 ) August 12, 1955) is a contemporary American writer and speaker.

She graduated from Harvard University in 1977 with a BA in English, and later attended Stanford Business School (1979–1980), but dropped out in favor of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she earned her MFA in fiction in 1983.

In 2013 Jen published her first non-fiction book, entitled Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self. Based on the Massey Lectures that Jen delivered at Harvard in 2012, Tiger Writing explores East-West differences in self construction, and how these affect art and especially literature.

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Who is Gish Jen Dating?

According to our records, Gish Jen married to David C. O'Connor. As of December 1, 2023, Gish Jen’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Gish Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Gish Jen celebrates birthday on August 12 of every year.

Why did Gish Jen change her name?

The Stranger in the fifth grade. In junior high she wrote poetry, and in high school — when she discarded her given name, Lillian, which was too fusty for her tastes , and took up Gish, after the actress Lillian Gish-she was the literary editor for the school magazine.

Is Gish Jen Chinese?

Gish Jen’s parents are Chinese immigrants. Her father survived World War II, going to college classes held in caves to escape the Japanese bombings. He came to the US as a civil engineer and eventually worked on the atomic bomb program. Her mother gave up her graduate school dreams to become a schoolteacher.

What is Gish Jen known for?

Gish Jen has published short work in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and dozens of other periodicals, anthologies and textbooks. Her work has been chosen for The Best American Short Stories five times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike.

Where did Gish Jen grow up?

Jen, the second of five children, grew up in Yonkers and Scarsdale. While in high school, Jen adopted the name Gish after an actress, Lillian Gish. She started out to be a pre-med and pre-law student, but she graduated from Harvard University majoring in English in 1977.

When was the white umbrella written?

1984. Gish Jen, born Lillian Jen, is an American writer and speaker. Jen is a second generation Chinese American. In this short story, a Chinese American girl sees a white umbrella that she longs to have.