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Yiyun Li (b. 1972)

Yiyun Li (b. 1972) is a Chinese American writer who grew up in Beijing, China. In 1996, after attending Peking University, Li moved to the United States to study medicine at the University of Iowa, earning master's degrees in both immunology and the writing of creative nonfiction. Li's first collection of short stories, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2005), won numerous literary awards, and in 2009 she published her first novel, The Vagrants followed by Gold Boy, Emerald Girl in 2010.