Min Jin Lee
Min Jin Lee went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She then attended law school at Georgetown University and worked as a lawyer for several years in New York prior to writing full time.
She has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts and her essays have appeared in THE TIMES (London), VOGUE and in the anthologies TO BE REAL and BREEDER. Her debut novel FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES is a No. 1 Book Sense Pick, a NEW YORK TIMES Editor’s Choice, a WALL STREET JOURNAL Juggle Book Club selection, and a national bestseller; it was a Top 10 Novels of the Year for THE TIMES (London), NPR’s FRESH AIR and USA TODAY. She lives in Tokyo with her husband and son where she is working on her second novel PACHINKO.
FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES was also published in the U.K. (Random House, 2007), and is forthcoming in South Korea (Magellan) and Italy (Einaudi).
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Min Jin Lee is So in Vogue
Our client Min Jin Lee reports this on her blog: The U.S. paperback of Free Food for Millionaires will be released on April 9th. It has a new cover designed by the talented art director Anne Twomey of Grand Central, and copies should be at bookstores near you presently. There’s a new essay in VOGUE this month (April 2008) titled “Weighing In” in its Up Front column.
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- Food & Wine
- Newsweek Interview with Charlene Dy
- TATLER, July 2008
- I’m a Fan
- The Hamburger and Malaysia
- PAPERBACK TOUR & VOGUE (April 2008)
- A Book Review in The Times (London) and a Q&A on Wall Street Journal.Com
- THE YEAR END LISTS
- The Greetings of the Season
- Maureen Corrigan reviews Free Food For Millionaires on NPR’s FRESH AIR
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Our client Min Jin Lee reports this on her blog: The U.S. paperback of Free Food for Millionaires will be released on April 9th. It has a new cover designed by the talented art director Anne Twomey of Grand Central, and copies should be at bookstores near you presently. There’s a new essay in VOGUE this month (April 2008) titled “Weighing In” in its Up Front column.