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Gish Jen is an American novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her novels Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land. She has also written several short stories, essays, and non-fiction works.
Jen was born in Long Island, New York, and grew up in Scarsdale, New York. She attended Harvard University, where she earned a B.A. in English and American Literature in 1977. She then went on to earn an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California, Irvine in 1979.
Jen has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. She has also been a visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Michigan.
Jen currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children.
| Popular As |
Lillian Jen |
| Occupation |
Writer, speaker |
| Age |
69 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Leo |
| Born |
12 August, 1955 |
| Birthday |
12 August |
| Birthplace |
Long Island, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality |
United States |
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She is a member of famous Writer with the age 69 years old group.
Gish Jen Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Gish Jen's Husband?
Her husband is David C. O'Connor
| Family |
| Parents |
Not Available |
| Husband |
David C. O'Connor |
| Sibling |
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| Children |
2 |
Gish Jen Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Gish Jen worth at the age of 69 years old? Gish Jen’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. She is from United States. We have estimated
Gish Jen's net worth
, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2023 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2022 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2022 |
Under Review |
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Not Available |
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| Source of Income |
Writer |
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Timeline
Her fifth novel was released in February of 2020 and is titled The Resisters. It is about baseball, class warfare, and a sentient Internet. A related short story was commissioned by the New York Times as part of their Privacy Project and published 1-5-2020.
Jen's second work of non-fiction is "The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap," published in February 2017. This is a provocative study of the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about the self and society and what this means for current debates in art, education, geopolitics, and business. Drawing on stories and personal anecdotes, as well as recent research in cultural psychology, Jen reveals how this difference shapes what we perceive, remember, say, do, and make – in short, how it shapes everything from our ideas about copying and talking in class to the difference between Apple and Alibaba.
In 2013 Jen published her first non-fiction book, entitled Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self. Based on the Massey Lectures that Jen delivered at Harvard in 2012, Tiger Writing explores East-West differences in self construction, and how these affect art and especially literature.
Her fourth novel, World and Town, portrays a fragile America, its small towns challenged by globalization, development, fundamentalism, and immigration, as well as the ripples sent out by 9/11. World and Town won the 2011 Massachusetts Book Prize in fiction and was nominated for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
In 2009, Princeton's Elaine Showalter devoted much attention to Jen in her survey of American women writers, "A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx." In an article in The Guardian, Showalter elaborated, including Jen in a list of eight top authors, and pointing out that Jen's "vision of a multicultural America goes well beyond the angry rants or despairing projections of Roth, DeLillo, McCarthy or other finalists in the Great American Novel competition." In 2012, Junot Diaz concurred, calling Jen "the Great American Novelist we're always hearing about." And in 2000, in a millennial edition of The Times Magazine in the UK, in which figures were asked to name their successors in the 21st century, John Updike picked Jen.
She graduated from Harvard University in 1977 with a BA in English, and later attended Stanford Business School (1979–1980), but dropped out in favor of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she earned her MFA in fiction in 1983.
Gish Jen (born Lillian Jen; (Chinese: 任璧蓮 ) August 12, 1955) is a contemporary American writer and speaker.
Gish Jen is a first-generation Chinese American. Her parents emigrated from China in the 1940s; her mother was from Shanghai and her father was from Yixing. Born in Long Island, New York, she grew up in Queens, then Yonkers, then Scarsdale. Her birth name is Lillian, but during her high school years she acquired the nickname Gish, named for actress Lillian Gish.
