Min Jin Lee

Min Jin Lee is a Korean-American novelist and journalist whose epic family sagas explore the Korean immigrant experience across generations. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she grew up in Queens, New York, and studied History at Yale and Law at Georgetown. American Hagwon is part of her body of work that includes Pachinko — a sweeping multigenerational novel following a Korean family in Japan from 1910 to 1989, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, a New York Times bestseller, and adapted into an Apple TV+ series. Lee's fiction is celebrated for its epic scope, its compassion, and its exploration of identity, belonging, and resilience. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers epic, deeply humane fiction about the Korean experience across generations and continents.