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A Mariner Original From the author of The Queen of the Night , an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in art. As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as "masterful" by Roxane Gay, "incomparable" by Junot Díaz, and "incendiary" by the New York Times. With How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, his first collection of nonfiction, he's sure to secure his place as one of the finest essayists of his generation as well. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author's manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these essays, he grows from student to teacher, reader to writer, and reckons with his identities as a son, a gay man, a Korean American, an artist, an activist, a lover, and a friend. He examines...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Alexander Chee
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (682 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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