Min jin6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() I was working in one of the cash registers all the way in the back of the shop. That was my next question that I read that. It was one of the greatest moments of my life. I understand that when you were 17 years old working as a cashier at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you sold a book to Tina Turner. She’s a writer in residence at Amherst College, a trustee of Penn America, and she joins me today to talk about her extraordinary life and career mind. Min Jin Lee is also the recipient of South Korea’s Grand Prize for literature, and she has fellowships in fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Pachinko was an international bestseller, a National Book Award finalist, and was named one of the Best Books of 2017 by the New York Times, the BBC, the New York Public Library and more, and it has been translated into 35 languages. The second, Pachinko, chronicles several generations of a poor Korean family living in 20th century Japan. The first Free Food for Millionaires is about the daughter of Korean immigrants from Queens trying to make it among Manhattan’s rich and glamorous. Min Jin Lee is an author and journalist who was born in Korea, grew up in Queens, and now lives in Harlem. The author of the award-winning novels “Pachinko” and “Free Food for Millionaires,” Min Jin Lee, discusses her remarkable career and the long journey and intention behind her Korean diaspora novels. ![]()
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