Chang-Rae Lee - Women's Golf Coach - Princeton University Athletics

Chang-Rae Lee

Title:
Academic-Athletic Fellow

Chang-Rae Lee is an Academic-Athletic Fellow for the men's and women's golf programs and is a professor of creative writing at Princeton's Lewis Center for the Arts.

Lee earned his bachelor's degree from Yale and a master's degree from Oregon where he began his teaching career. Lee's novels have won many accolades, including his 1995 novel, Native Speaker, which won a Postsecondary Educational Network/Hemingway Award, and his 1999 novel, A Gesture Life, which won an Asian American Literary Award. His 2004 novel, Aloft, won an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, while his 2010 novel, The Surrendered, won the Dayton Literary Peace Price.