Charles Yu

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Known forWriting

GenderMale

Birthday3 January 1976 (50 years old)

Place of birthLos Angeles, California, USA

Known credits8

Biography

Charles Chowkai Yu (born January 3, 1976) is an American writer and lawyer. He is the author of the novels How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown, as well as the short-story collections Third Class Superhero and Sorry Please Thank You. In 2007 he was named a "5 under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation. In 2020, Interior Chinatown won the National Book Award for fiction. Yu created a television adaptation of Interior Chinatown which premiered in 2024.