Min Jin Lee

Min Jin Lee’s debut novel FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES was a No. 1 Book Sense Pick, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and a Wall Street Journal Book Club selection. A national bestseller, it was a Top 10 Novels of the Year for The Times of London, NPR’s Fresh Air and USA Today. Her short fiction received the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story and was featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts.  Her writings on culture, travel, 19^th century literature, race and feminism have been published in anthologies and Conde Nast Traveler, Vogue, Wall Street Journal, and Food & Wine. She has served three terms as a columnist for the leading South Korean newspaper the Chosun Ilbo. She has lectured about literature, transnationalism, race and feminism at Columbia, Stanford, Johns Hopkins (SAIS), Yale University, Ewha University, Waseda University, the Asia Society (New York, San Franciso, and Hong Kong) and the Tokyo American Center of the U.S. Embassy.  A graduate of Yale College and Georgetown University Law Center, she worked as a lawyer prior to writing full time. She lives in New York with her husband and son.