Nationality American Education Smith College Role Novelist | Name Hanya Yanagihara | |
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Occupation Author, writer, journalist Books A Little Life, The People in the Trees, People in the Trees, The: a Novel Nominations Man Booker Prize, National Book Award for Fiction | ||
Notable works A Little Life (2015) | ||
Review a little life by hanya yanagihara alittlelife
Hanya Yanagihara (born September 20, 1974) is an American novelist and travel writer. She grew up in Hawaii.
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- Review a little life by hanya yanagihara alittlelife
- Hanya yanagihara reads at the 2015 national book awards finalists reading hd
- Early life
- Career
- Works and publications
- References
Hanya yanagihara reads at the 2015 national book awards finalists reading hd
Early life
A fourth-generation Hawaiian, Yanagihara was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father, hematologist/oncologist Richard Yanagihara, is from Hawaii and her mother was born in Seoul. As a child, Yanagihara moved frequently with her family, living in Hawaii, New York, Maryland, California, and Texas. She attended Punahou High School in Hawaii.
Career
Following her graduation from the women's college Smith College in 1995, Yanagihara moved to New York and worked for several years as a publicist. In 2007, Yanagihara began writing for Condé Nast Traveler where she became an editor before leaving in 2015 to become a deputy editor at the style magazine T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
Her first novel, The People in the Trees, based on the real-life case of the virologist Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, was praised as one of the best novels of 2013.
Yanagihara's A Little Life was published in March 2015, again receiving predominantly favorable reviews, and defying expectations by its editor, Yanagihara's agent, and the author herself that it would not sell well. One notable exception was Daniel Mendelsohn for The New York Review of Books, who sharply critiqued A Little Life′s technical execution, its depictions of violence, which Mendelsohn found ethically and aesthetically gratuitous, and its position with respect to the representation of queer life or issues by a presumed-heterosexual author. Mendelsohn's review prompted a response from Gerald Howard, the book's publisher, in a letter to which Mendelsohn responded in turn. On September 15, 2015, the book was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize for fiction. Yanagihara was also selected as a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Fiction for A Little Life.