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Lan Samantha Chang

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Lan Samantha Chang's fiction has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Story and The Best American Short Stories 1994 and 1996. Chang is the author of the award-winning books Hunger and Inheritance, and the novel All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. She is the recipient of the Wallace Stegner and Truman Capote fellowships at Stanford University. She also received, from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a Teaching-Writing fellowship and a Michener-Copernicus fellowship. Her many awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, and she was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she directs the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

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Average rating: 3.61 · 1,038 ratings · 202 reviews · 4 distinct works

	All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost 3.58 avg rating — 399 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Hunger 3.70 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Inheritance 3.53 avg rating — 286 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, Marcelle Clements (Introduction), Lan Samantha Chang (Afterword) 3.76 avg rating — 10,653 ratings — published 1912 — 137 editions	My rating:

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“If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young.”
― Lan Samantha Chang, All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost

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“For each of us, he understood, is born into our own time and eventually the things we held as the center of our world, dearly, unforgivingly, must fade.”
― Lan Samantha Chang, All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost

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“For it is through humility, he knew, that holiness--and poetry--find entrance to the human soul.”
― Lan Samantha Chang, All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost

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