Charles Yu

Charles Yu

personal-info

known-for

Writing

gender

Male

birthday

1976-01-03

place-of-birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

also-known-as

游朝凱
Charles Yu Chowkai

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.