Yiyun Li Biography, Books, and Similar Authors

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Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li

How to pronounce Yiyun Li: ee-yoon lee

Yiyun Li Biography

Yiyun Li is the author of six works of fiction—Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University.

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Things in Nature Merely Grow jacket Wednesday's Child jacket The Book of Goose jacket Where Reasons End jacket
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