Native Speaker (35 page)

Chang-rae Lee
is the author of
Native Speaker
, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction;
A Gesture Life
;
Aloft
; and
The Surrendered
, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest novel,
On Such a Full Sea
, will be published in January 2014. Selected by
The New Yorker
as one of the “20 Writers for the 21st Century,” Lee teaches writing at Princeton University.