Wesley Yang

Wesley YangWesley Yang is a non-fiction author born in st. Louis, Mo, and bred in New Jersey. Yang came into the limelight in 2008 when he wrote about Seung-Hui Cho, the mass murderer. Since then, the talented author has written essays and articles that have featured in New York Magazine, Harper’s, and the New York Times Book Review. His debut novel, The Souls of Yellow Folk, is basically a collection of his best essays. Born of Korean-American parents who came seeking refuge in the US during the Korean War, the author clearly understands how it feels to be Asian in the West, and he has written a few good essays on the same. Currently, Yang lives in Montreal.