Min Jin Lee is an author and journalist who was born in Korea, grew up in Queens. She's published two novels about a poor Korean family living in 20th century Japan. Her book Pachinko was named at the best books of 2017 by The New York Times; it has been translated into 35 languages. When she was 17 years old, working as a cashier at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you sold a book to Tina Turner.