Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including, most recently, Things in Nature Merely Grow. She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Award, an International Writer Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Li is the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.