---
name: "Alexander Chee"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alexander-chee"
fi1m_id: "alexander-chee"
imdb_id: "nm7901356"
tmdb_id: 6421371
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "21 August 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-30T09:14:43.582590+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alexander Chee

## Identity

Alexander Chee

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alexander-chee
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alexander-chee
- **IMDb ID:** nm7901356
- **TMDB ID:** 6421371
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7901356/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6421371

Writer. Born 21 August 1967 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 21 August 1967, South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7901356/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6421371

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*East of Eden*](https://film.one/tv/east-of-eden.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, vulture.com, alexanderchee.net.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *East of Eden* (2026), Fi1m 81, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/east-of-eden.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *East of Eden* (2026), series, Writer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/east-of-eden.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/alexander-chee