There, she lived in a predominantly middle-class Jewish suburb – “I was a Jewish kid,” she says – and went to an arts high school until she headed to New Haven to study at Yale. I didn’t do much of anything to turn myself into a professional writer.” As effortless as she makes it seem, Choi is today a critically acclaimed author.īorn in South Bend, Ind., to a Korean immigrant father and a Russian Jewish American mother, Choi spent her first eight years there, until she moved with her mother to Houston after a brief stint in Japan. I flirted with any number of inappropriate career choices – film, art, being a professor. “Although I was good at writing, I never considered it as a career. “I didn’t set out to bring my life into line with a writer’s life,” she says. In many ways, Susan Choi’s life has been a series of unpremeditated choices. Building Character: Susan Choi re-emerges with her second novel, American Woman
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