Posted at 11:25 a.m., Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Chang-rae Lee gives public reading
Advertiser Staff
Chang-rae Lee, writer, novelist and director of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University, will give a free reading 7 p.m. Oct. 4 at Wo International Center's Luke Lecture Hall on the Punahou School campus.
Lee is on sabbatical from Princeton and serving as scholar-in-residence at Punahou.
Lee's first two novels, "Native Speaker" and "A Gesture Life," earned him a place on The New Yorker's list of the 20 best American writers under 40. "Native Speaker" won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the American Book Award and the ALA Book of th Year.
The third novel for Lee, who was born in Seoul, South Korea, was "Aloft," and he is at work on a fourth.
Information: Bruce Schauble, 943-3685.
