Susan Choi
1969
Susan Choi is a renowned American writer of the Korean descent, who is famous for writing fiction stories. She is particularly popular for writing the standalone books, A Person of Interest and American Woman. Choi was born in 1969 in South Bend, Indiana, the United States to a Jewish mother and a Korean father. She completed her schooling by studying in public schools. Following the divorce of her parents when Choi was 9 years old, she shifted to Houston, Texas along with her mother. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990 from the Yale University in Literature. Later, she joined the Cornell University and earned an MFA. After earning the graduate degree, Choi started working as a fact checker for The New Yorker. It was during this job that she met her future husband named Pete Wells, who now works as a restaurant critic for the NY Times.