When he was going on 5, we went camping, and he said he had a dream. Why did you decide to write a children’s book? I love children’s books and children’s literature. In a series of ongoing interviews published in Berkshire Magazine, Editor-in-Chief Anastasia Stanmeyer is in dialogue with authors who will be talking at the WIT Festival. She spends her summers in Vermont as a faculty member of the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. And her first book for children, Camp Tiger, also was published in 2019.Ī recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, Choi will be shifting from teaching fiction writing at Yale, to teaching in the MFA program at Johns Hopkins. It focuses on a group of 15- and 16-year-olds who attend an elite high school for the performing arts in a small, unnamed southern city in the early 1980s. Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise, won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction.

Her fourth, My Education, which received a 2014 Lammy Award, is the story of a young woman’s mistakes that begin in the bedroom and end 15 years later and thousands of miles away. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, draws on the Unabomber case and writes about a campus bombing and a beleaguered Asian-American professor. Her second novel, American Woman, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize, is about a young Japanese-American radical caught in the militant underground of the mid-1970s.

This won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. Her first novel, The Foreign Student, is the story of a young Korean man, scarred by war, and the deeply troubled daughter of a wealthy Southern American family.

American woman by susan choi