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Don Lee Don Lee���s novel The Collective, won the 2013 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. He is also the author of the novels Wrack and Ruin, Country of Origin, and the story collection Yellow. He has received an American Book Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, the Edgar Award f���

I'm giving a talk at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA, on Monday, October 6, at 6 p.m., if anyone's in the area.


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I'll be doing a reading at the Chestnut Hill Book Festival on Sunday, September 22, at 2:15 p.m.
It'll be at Christ Ascension Lutheran Church, 8300 Germantown Ave., Chestnut Hill, PA.


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Book Festival news story in Life on the Hill, a beautiful publication that covers interesting Chestnut Hill people, places and events and are distributed within Chestnut Hill, Erdenheim, Flourtown, Lafayette Hill, Mount Airy and Wyndmoor. Of these copies, 3,000 are mailed to homes and 3,000 are deli...

The paperback for The Collective has come out. Same cover, which I'm happy about.

Q&A done by the inimitable Terry Hong, who's interviewed me many times, on BLOOM, "a literary site devoted to highlighting, profiling, reviewing, and interviewing authors whose first major work was published when they were age 40 or older."


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Why do I keep doing it, then? Because it’s a challenge, and I’m compelled to do it, and I love being inside the process of writing a novel, of thinking about it all the time and figuring out struct...

I love this photo sent to me by Chris Shinn, who taught The Collective in a class at Georgetown this semester.

Chris writes: "I wanted to send you a photo of the 'Georgetown 3AC" [refers to the 3AC in the novel—the Asian American Artists Collective.] "I am going to contact my AA Lit colleagues around the country too and encourage them to start their own '3AC' groups. Perhaps we can start a trend, and by this time next year, we will have a UCLA 3AC, a Columbia 3AC, a Berkeley 3AC and hopefully more."

A nice profile of me, written by Vivien Kim Thorp, in the March issue of KoreAm magazine.


March Issue: Author Don Lee’s ‘The Collective’ Most Personal Novel to Date
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Yellow Power Redux Don Lee’s highly praised fourth book, The Collective, about three Asian American artists, is his most personal yet. by VIVIEN KIM THORP Transnational adoption, interracial dating, the ephemeral nature of friendship and the pitfalls of pursuing a life in the arts—these are just a f...

The Collective has won the 2013 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction from the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association.


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An interview with Euan Kerr on Minnesota Public Radio's "All Things Considered" has been posted.


Korean-American novelist uses Macalester as backdrop for 'The Collective'
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The Korean-American novelist Don Lee's latest book "The Collective" uses Macalester College in St. Paul as a launching point for a tale about the Asian-American experience. Lee said of his four books so far, "The Collective" is his most personal.

Podcast of a radio interview with Sam Hankin on WCHE 1520 that was broadcast on Sept. 24 is now available through the link below and on iTunes (search for "The Avid Reader Don Lee").


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Sam Hankin talks with Don Lee, author of The Collective, on this edition of Avid Reader.