![]() ![]() She divides her time between the Netherlands and New York City. She received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University and earned an MFA from Columbia University. ![]() She immigrated from Hong Kong to Brooklyn when she was five and worked in a Chinatown clothing factory for much of her childhood. She was one of twelve authors asked by the Agatha Christie estate to write an original, authorized Miss Marple story for the collection Marple: Twelve New Mysteries. She has been selected for numerous honors, including the American Library Association Alex Award, a Goodreads Choice Awards Semi-Finalist for Mystery & Thriller, the Chinese American Librarians Association Best Book Award, an Orange New Writers title, and the Sunday Times Short Story Award international shortlist. Jean Kwok: Girl in Translation is the first novel I wrote, only I wrote it more than once I finished it, then realized that I needed to rework almost the entire thing. Her work has been published in twenty countries and is taught in schools across the world. Jean Kwok is the award-winning, New York Times and international bestselling author of The Leftover Woman (coming 10/10/23), Girl in Translation, Mambo in Chinatown, and Searching for Sylvie Lee, which was a Read with Jenna Today Show Pick. ![]()
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