Biography
Alexander Chee is an American writer of fiction, essays and journalism. He studied at Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
His novels include Edinburgh (2001) and The Queen of the Night (2016), and his essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel appeared in 2018. He has received a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Chee is a professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College.
In 2026 he wrote an episode of the Netflix series East of Eden, adapted by Zoë Kazan from the John Steinbeck novel.
