Yiyun Li, author portrait
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Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li is the author of six works of fiction—Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Hemingway Award, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and was featured in The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 fiction issue. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Where Reasons End
Must I Go
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

Books

A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
Where Reasons End
Must I Go
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
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