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Susan Choi

Biography

Susan Choi

Susan Choi is the author of the novels MY EDUCATION, A PERSON OF INTEREST, AMERICAN WOMEN and THE FOREIGN STUDENT. Her work has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and winner of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award and the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. With David Remnick, she co-edited WONDERFUL TOWN: New York Stories from The New Yorker. She’s received NEA and Guggenheim Foundation fellowships. She lives in Brooklyn.

Susan Choi

Books by Susan Choi

by Susan Choi

In American Woman, Susan Choi assembles a fictionalized recasting of the notorious 1974 Patty Hearst kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. On this historical framework, Choi drapes a tale pulsing with immediacy, as we follow the aftermath of a violent shootout and life on the run.