Susan ChoiRane Arroyo
Fiction

Susan Choi is a novelist who, according to Ron Charles of the Washington Post, “looks for essential American characters in the most peculiar places.” Her second novel, Pulitzer Prize finalist American Woman, is a fictionalized account of the Patty Hearst kidnapping, and her most recent book, A Person of Interest, combines elements of the Unabomber case and the U.S. government’s investigation of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee in what Charles calls “one of the most remarkable novels to have emerged from our age of terror.” Choi is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She was raised in South Bend, Indiana and now lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two sons.