Yiyun Lee

Yiyun Li is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including the most recent, Things in Nature Merely Grow, which won the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal and was a finalist for National Book Award and PEN/Jean Stein award.  She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, PEN/Jean Stein Award, an International Writer Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a MacArthur Fellowship and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and many other places. A member of American Academy of Arts and Letters and a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Li is the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.