“Living
in America: Voices and Visions”
Lan
Samantha Chang Reading
Tuesday, March 4, 2003
The winner of the Bay Area Reviewers Association Prize for First Fiction, a California Book Award, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Lan Samantha Chang’s novella and short story collection Hunger was described by the Washington Post as “a work of gorgeous, enduring prose.” Born and raised in Appleton, WI, Chang is a graduate of Yale University (East Asian Studies) and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and Wallace Stegner and Truman Capote Fellowships from Stanford University. In recent years she has divided teaching time between Stanford and Princeton; for the current academic year she returns to teach at Harvard, from where she graduated with a M.P.A. through the Kennedy School of Government.
Writing about Hunger, the Hungry Mind Review said, “[an] impressively wise and lyrical debut . . . Chang’s beguiling stories are about being Chinese, being American, being both and neither; but more than that, they are about the pain of being loved and loving in return, being in physical and psychic exile.”
Bibliography
Fiction
Hunger (1998)