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Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa–sponsored events. She serves as a trustee of PEN America, as a director of the Authors Guild and on the National Advisory Board of the Immigration Initiative at Harvard. From 2019-2022, she will be a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College. As of the fall of 2019, she will be based in New York City, where she will be working on American Hagwon, the third diaspora novel of “The Koreans” trilogy and Name Recognition, a work of non-fiction. From 2007 to 2011, Lee lived in Tokyo where she researched and wrote Pachinko. She attended law school at Georgetown University and worked as a lawyer for several years in New York prior to writing full time. At Yale College, she majored in History and was awarded the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. ‘Free Food For Millionaires ‘ and ‘ Pachinko ’ are some of the major books that have brought her some recognition. Lee is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and was inducted into the Bronx Science Hall of Fame. American Writer Technically, Min Jin Lee has only written a handful of books three to be specific, along with several professional reviews of popular journal articles and books. She has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writers.Min Jin Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to Queens, New York with her family in 1976 when she was seven years old. She is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko.

As a writer, I remain more interested in all the characters rather than one character.

I am curious about how we individuals work within communities and without them so it felt very natural to me to pursue this old-school style of writing which allowed for questions, observations and experiments.

I am fascinated by communities, small and large, and individuals in them.

The 19th century social novel is my favourite genre so although it was enormously challenging for me, it made sense to try to write one.

Exquisitely drawn, Lee’s sprawling epic highlights the singular pain of searching for home while struggling to assimilate amid a backdrop of war and strife in both a unified Korea and Japan. And the guys in charge will exploit men who believe in ideas too much. Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko expertly weaves a rich tapestry of a family grappling with class and cultural displacement into a masterpiece.

But ideas can make men forget their own interests.

Patriotism is just an idea, so is capitalism or communism.

I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean – or not Korean enough.

One minute before our scheduled interview, author Min Jin Lee picks up the phone on the first ring.

Living every day in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage. A Q&A with Min Jin Lee on writing and activism amid violence against Asians.

Happy Birthday, Min Jin Lee, born 11 July 1968.