Min Jin Lee is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, a finalist for the National Book Award. Lee is the recipient of the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature and fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College and serves as a trustee of PEN America and a director of the Authors Guild. She is at work on her third novel, American Hagwon, and a nonfiction work, Name Recognition.