The Foreign Student, Susan Choi's first novel, earned the Asian-American Literary Prize for fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2004 and her third, A Person of Interest, was a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist in 2009. She has earned scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and in 2010 she was awarded the PEN/W. The G.Sebald Prize is given to a writer who has made a significant contribution to She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons and teaches at Princeton.