Marie Myung-Ok Lee
author of The Evening Hero, essayist, writer in residence, Columbia University
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Marie Myung-Ok Lee is the author of the novel The Evening Hero (2022), and the re-release of her young adult novel, Finding My Voice. Her journalism and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Paris Review and many others. She is a founder and former board president of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and teaches fiction at Columbia, where she is the Writer in Residence.
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Fiction as history
One of the best 20th century history classes I took as an undergraduate used all novels (e.g. Dreiser, Lewis, Nichols et al) to capture the "truth" of the time period. As a novelist I take this perspective to illuminate familial histories that are part of a larger narrative, to some degree reverse engineering my work to fill in the inevitable gaps that exist in understanding between child and immigrant parent.
Marie Myung-Ok Lee
author of The Evening Hero, essayist, writer in residence, Columbia University
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