Min Jin Lee
| Min Jin Lee | |
| Hangul | 이민진 |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization | Yi Minjin |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yi Minjin |
Min Jin Lee (born 1968) is a Korean American writer whose work frequently deals with Korean American topics. She is the author of the novel Free Food for Millionaires.
Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea. Lee's family came to the United States in 1976, when she was seven years old. She grew up in Elmhurst, Queens, New York. Her parents owned a wholesale jewelry store there. She studied history at Yale College and law at Georgetown University Law Center. She also worked as a corporate lawyer in New York for several years before becoming a writer. She lived in Japan for four years from 2007 to 2011. Lee lives in New York with her son, Sam, and her husband, Christopher Duffy, who is half-Japanese.
Lee also served three consecutive seasons as a "Morning Forum" English-language columnist of South Korea's newspaper Chosun Ilbo.
She has also lectured about writing, literature, and politics at Columbia, Tufts, Loyola Marymount University, Stanford, Johns Hopkins (SAIS), University of Connecticut, Boston College, Hamilton College, Harvard Law School, Yale University, Ewha University, Waseda University, the American School in Japan, World Women’s Forum, the Tokyo American Center of the U.S. Embassy and the Asia Society in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong.
Lee's short story Axis of Happiness won the 2004 Narrative Prize from Narrative Magazine. Another short story by Lee, Motherland, about a family of Koreans in Japan was published in The Missouri Review and won The Peden Prize for Best Short Story. Her short stories have been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts.
Her debut novel Free Food for Millionaires was published in 2007. It was named one of the Top 10 Novels of the Year by The Times,The Times of London, NPR's Fresh Air, USA Today, a notable novel by the San Francisco Chronicle, a New York Times Editor's Choice, was a selection for the Wall Street Journal Juggler Book Club, and a No. 1 Book Sense pick. The novel was also published in the U.K. by Random House in 2007, Italy by Einaudi and in South Korea by Image Box Publishing. The book has also been featured on online periodicals such as The Page 99 Test, and Largehearted Boy.
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