Chang-rae Lee on Channeling His Immigrant Childhood Into Fiction
Culture Index
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Relevance
3/25
Freshness
25/25
Authority
18/20
Brand Signal
6/15
Depth
3/15
5-Axis Cultural Radar
Chang-rae Lee’s family history influences most of his novels, especially his latest, A Tender Age. Lee was born in Seoul, in South Korea; his father’s family was from Pyongyang, now North Korea’s capital. He came to the U.S. at three

