Thursday, April 25

Mass Hall Faculty Room (3rd floor)

Join Alexander Chee for a conversation and reading of his work, co-moderated by Professor Belinda Kong and Miranda Baker ‘24. There will be a book signing that follows, and a limited number of copies of his books will be available for purchase on-site. 

Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, all from Mariner Books. A contributing editor at The New Republic and an editor at large at VQR, his essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, The Sewanee Review, and the 2016 and 2019 Best American Essays. He was guest- editor for The Best American Essays of 2022.

He is a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction, and the recipient of a Whiting Award, a NEA Fellowship, an MCCA Fellowship, the Randy Shilts Prize in gay nonfiction, the Paul Engle Prize, the Lambda Editor’s Choice Prize, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Leidig House, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak.

He is a full professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont.

Presented by Asian American Reckonings. For more information, contact j.conner@bowdoin.edu. Updates will also be posted here.