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Susan Choi (born 1969) is an American novelist. Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana to a Korean father and a Jewish mother. When she was nine years old, her parents divorced. She and her mother moved to Houston, Texas. Choi earned a B.A. in Literature from Yale University (1990) and an M.F.A. from Cornell University. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. After receiving her graduate degree, she worked for ''The New Yorker'' as a fact checker. Choi won the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction and was a finalist of the Discover Great New Writers Award at Barnes & Noble for her first novel, ''The Foreign Student''. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her historical fiction novel, American Woman. In 2010, she won the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award.〔(PEN American Center Names Award Winners )〕 With David Remnick, she edited an anthology of short fiction entitled ''Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker''. Choi's second novel, ''American Woman'', was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her novel ''A Person of Interest'' was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2009. Her latest novel is ''My Education''. ==Awards and grants== *Asian American Literary Award for Fiction for ''The Foreign Student'' *Steven Turner Award for ''The Foreign Student'' *Barnes & Noble Discover Award finalist for ''The Foreign Student'' *National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient (2001) *Pulitzer Prize finalist 2004 for ''American Woman'' *New York Public Library Young Lions Award finalist 2004 for ''American Woman'' *Guggenheim Fellow (2004). *PEN/W.G. Sebald Award (2010) *Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction for ''My Education'' (2014)〔("Looking for summer reading? Lambda Literary Awards rain down a host of choices" ). ''Times-Picayune'', June 3, 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Susan Choi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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