[Yale-readings] Today! Chang-rae Lee and Mark Strand--

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Yale Writers Return to Yale
Chang-rae Lee and Mark Strand
Reading from their work

5 p.m. Thursday, April 23, 2009
Linsly-Chittenden 101, 63 High Street

Sponsored by the Department of English
Free and open to the public
Chang-rae Lee is an award-winning Korean-American novelist. The author of three critically acclaimed novels--Native Speaker (1995), A Gesture Life (1999), and Aloft (2004)--Lee examines the politics and pathos of immigration and assimilation. Native Speaker, which follows a Korean American's descent into espionage, won both the PEN/Hemingway Award and the American Book award; after the publication of The Gesture Life, The New Yorker named Lee one of the country's top twenty novelists under the age of 40. A graduate of Yale's class of 1987, Lee currently is a professor in the Council of the Humanities and the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University.

Mark Strand is one of the most widely read and decorated poets of the last fifty years. The author of thirteen books of poetry, numerous prose volumes, and extensive translation from Spanish and Quechua, Strand has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bobbit Prize, The Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Wallace Stevens Award. He is the former Poet Laureate of the United States and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His New Selected Poems was released in 2007 by Knopf and is out in paperback. A graduate of the Yale Art School, Strand is currently a professor of English at Columbia University.


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