Meet the Author
Gish Jen: Personal Appearance, The Girl at the Baggage Claim
- Item Number
- 132
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Opening Bid
- 250 USD
Item Description
Gish Jen will appear at your Boston book club or by Skype to discuss one of her books.
Gish Jen’s new book is The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap. The author of six previous books, Jen has published short work in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and dozens of other periodicals and anthologies. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories four times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike. Nominated for a National Book Critics’ Circle Award, her work was featured in a PBS American Masters’ special on the American novel, and is widely taught.
Jen is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellowship, and other awards. An American Academy of Arts and Letters jury comprised of John Updike, Cynthia Ozick, Don DeLillo, and Joyce Carol Oates granted her a five-year Mildred and Harold Strauss Living award; Jen delivered the William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University in 2012.
Item Special Note
Must be arranged at the mutual convenience of the author and the winner of the item. Winners should suggest multiple dates. The appearance must take place within one year of the close of the auction. This prize cannot be resold or put on auction. Books that are part of any prize will be shipped within a month of the close of the auction unless otherwise specified.
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