| Chang-rae Lee
A second-generation Korean American, Chang-rae Lee immigrated
to the United States with his family when he was three years
old. He was raised in Westchester, New York, and graduated
from Yale University with a degree in English and from the
University of Oregon with a MFA in writing. He worked as a
Wall Street analyst for a year before turning to writing full
time. His first novel, Native Speaker (1995), won the PEN/Hemingway
Award and the American Book Award and explores the life of
a Korean-American outsider who is involved in espionage. In
1999, he published his second novel, A Gesture Life, which
elaborated on his themes of identity and assimilation through
the narrative of an elderly physician who remembers treating
Korean “comfort women” during World War II. His
2004 novel Aloft has been well reviewed by the critics and
features Lee's first protagonist who is not Korean, but a
disengaged and isolated suburbanite forced to deal with his
world.
For more information, visit:
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/home/02/1018_crlee/hmcap.html
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Michael Wood
Michael Wood is the Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English
and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University.
Currently he is the Chair of the English Department at Princeton
and, from 1995-2001, he was the Director of Gauss Seminars
in Criticism at Princeton. He is the recipient of many fellowships
and honors, including a National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowship and is an ongoing Fellow of the New York Institute
for the Humanities. He is an editorial board member of Kenyon
Review. His works include books on Stendhal, Garcia Marquez,
Nabokov, Kafka, and films. Additionally, he is a widely published
essayist with articles on film and literature in Harpers,
London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, New York
Times Book Review, New Republic and others. Michael Wood is
currently working on a book about Proust and a short history
of oracles. He is married and has three children.
To find out more information about Michael Wood, visit
his Web site at:
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/english/new_web/bios/wood.htm
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