While you were at the Bronx High School of Science, you read Sinclair Lewis' books. You decided to apply to Yale because he had also gone there. What was it about his books and his going to Yale that sort of provoked you to take that direction to? It is a really curious thing. I keep thinking that what I read, it's frozen in time.
The author of the award-winning novels “Pachinko” and “Free Food for Millionaires,” Min Jin Lee, discusses her remarkable career and the long journey and intention behind her Korean diaspora novels.