*Yiyun Li ** is the author of six works of fiction-- Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants,and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl --and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including a ...

*Yiyun Li ** is the author of six works of fiction-- Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants,and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl --and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Hemingway Award, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and was featured in The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 fiction issue. Her work has appeared in * The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories,and The O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.