Biography
Chang-rae Lee is a Korean-American novelist and writer for television. Born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1965, he moved to the United States as a child. He is the author of the novels Native Speaker (1995), A Gesture Life (1999), Aloft (2004), The Surrendered (2010), On Such a Full Sea (2014) and My Year Abroad (2021).
Lee studied at Yale University and the University of Oregon. He teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His novels have received awards including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. He has written episodes of the Apple TV+ series Pachinko (2022) and served as a co-executive producer.
