Contact information
Name:
Kate Pitts
Email:
pittsk@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Wednesday, February 17, 2027 - 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Where:
Williams Center for the Arts
Presenter:
Min Jin Lee
Price:
Free
The 2027 John L. Hatfield ‘67 Lecture hosted by Lafayette College Libraries will feature acclaimed author, Min Jin Lee, in conversation with Professor Seo-Hyun Park. The event will take place on February 17 at 4:30 PM in Williams Center for the Arts. A book signing and reception will follow.
Min Jin Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to New York with her family when she was seven years old. Lee is a writer whose award-winning fiction explores the intersection of race, ethnicity, immigration, class, religion, gender, and identity of a diasporic people.
Her debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (2007) was a Top 10 Book of the Year for The Times of London, NPR’s Fresh Air, USA Today, and was a national bestseller. Pachinko, her second novel, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, amongst the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017, and a Best Book of the 21st Century in The New York Times and Kirkus Review. American Hagwon (Cardinal/HBG September 29, 2026) is her third novel in the Diaspora Quartet.
Sponsored by:
John L. Hatfield '67