Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Yiyun Li is the author of two novels, The Vagrants and Kinder Than Solitude , and two short-story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, as well as the memoir, Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life . She has won literary awards including the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and was listed among Granta' s 21 Best of Young American Novelists 2007. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker , Paris Review and elsewhere. She is a MacArthur Fellow and a Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.