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  <name><![CDATA[Alexander Chee]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[&quot;Alexander Chee is the best new novelist I've seen in some time. Edinburgh is moody, dramatic - and pure.&quot;--Edmund White

“A complex, sophisticated, elegant investigation of trauma and desire - like a white hot flame.”--Joyce Hackett, in The Guardian

“A coming-of-age novel in the grand Romantic tradition, where passions run high, Cupid stalks Psyche, and love shares the dance floor with death . . . A lovely, nuanced, never predictable portrait of a creative soul in the throes of becoming.”--Washington Post Book World

Alexander Chee is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, an NEA Fellowship in Fiction, fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and currently is the Visiting Writer at Amherst College. He is the author of Edinburgh (Picador, 2002) and his second novel, The Queen of the Night, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin in 2008. 

He was born in 1967, in South Kingston, RI, and raised in South Korea, Guam, Truk and Maine. He attended Wesleyan University and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop.  

His first novel, Edinburgh, won the Michener, the AAWW Lit Award, the Lambda Editor's Choice Prize and was named a Booksense 76 Pick and a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year.  ]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Anne Carson, James Baldwin, Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, Denis Johnson, Gregor Von Rezzori, David Wojnarowicz, Deborah Eisenberg, Marilynne Robinson, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Robison, Guy Davenport, Joan Didion, Jean Rhys, Margaret Atwood, Barbara Gowdy, Los Bros Hernandez]]></influences>      <born_at>08/21/1967</born_at>    
  
  
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  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Queen of the Night]]></title>
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