
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.