Susan Choi is an American novelist who wrote her first novel, The Foreign Student in 1998. That book won the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction and it was also a finsalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. She has also been a Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and won the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for A Person of Interest.
Susan was born in Indiana to a Jewish mother and Korean father. However, her parents divorced when she was just nine years old and she ended up moving to Houston, Texas with her mother. From there she would go on to Yale where she earned a B.A. in Literature and later an MFA from Cornell University. She went to work at the New York Times where she worked as a fact checker and met her husband.
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