Biography
Chinese-born writer and professor who has lived and worked in the United States. She writes exclusively in English
Sample Works
- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2005) Book
- The Vagrants (2009) Book
- Where Reasons End (2019) Book
- The Book of Goose (2022) Book
- Wednesday's Child (2024) Book
- Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life (2017) Book
Roundtable Appearances
November 16, 2019 · ▶ Video
Emergence of Empathy: Encountering The Other Through Fiction
The event explores how empathy -- derived from Greek "pathos" meaning "to endure" -- functions through fiction. Coined in 1909 by psychologist Edward Bradford Titchner as a...
Percival Everett, Siri Hustvedt, Yiyun Li, Joseph Luzzi, Alberto Manguel