Chang-rae Lee (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Chang-rae Lee was born on July 29, 1965, in Seoul, Republic of Korea (South Korea), the second child to the physician Young Yong Lee and his wife, basketball player Inja (Hong) Lee. Soon after his birth, Lee's father immigrated to the United States, settling in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and becoming a psychiatrist. In 1968, his father brought his wife, Lee's elder sister Eunei, and Lee from Korea to the United States, moving to Manhattan in 1969. When his father secured a position at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, the family moved to the suburbs, where Chang-rae...
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