Video: New York State Author Min Jin Lee
"America's Book Club" on C-SPAN featured an intervew with New York State Author Min Jin Lee this weekend.
In the the talk with David M. Rubenstein, she discussed her literary career, early life in the United States, her award-winning novelPachinko and meeting King Charles and Queen Camilla.
Min Jin Lee is the bestselling author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, a finalist for the National Book Award, runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and a New York Times “100 Best Books of the Century.”
She serves as the New York State Author Laureate from 2025 through 2027.
She is the 2024 recipient of The Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence and has received the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award, and the Samsung Happiness for Tomorrow Award for Creativity from South Korea. She is the recipient of fellowships in fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Lee is an inductee of the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame and the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. She lives in Harlem with her family.