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Susan Choi

Biography

Susan Choi

Susan Choi is the author of TRUST EXERCISE, which received the National Book Award for fiction, as well as the novels THE FOREIGN STUDENT, AMERICAN WOMAN, A PERSON OF INTEREST, MY EDUCATION and FLASHLIGHT. She is a recipient of the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award, a Lambda Literary award, the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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.