Jean Kwok Email & Phone Number

Jean Kwok is the award-winning, New York Times and international bestselling author of The Leftover Woman, Searching for Sylvie Lee, Girl in Translation and Mambo in Chinatown. Her work has been published in twenty countries and taught in universities, colleges, and high schools across the world. The Leftover Woman was a Good Morning America Book Club Buzz Pick, CBS New York Book Club Top 3 Pick, Book of the Month Pick, an Indigo Best Book of the Year and a LibraryReads Top 10 Pick selected by library staff across America. It was featured in The New York Times, Time, Elle, People, NPR, The New York Post, Variety and more.An instant New York Times bestseller, Searching for Sylvie Lee was selected for the Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club. Jean has been chosen for numerous honors including the American Library Association Alex Award, the Chinese American Librarians Association Best Book Award, an Orange New Writers title and the Sunday Times Short Story Award international shortlist.She was one of twelve contemporary authors asked by the Agatha Christie estate to write an original, authorized Miss Marple story for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries. All of her novels are in development for film and television.She has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS News and spoken at many schools and venues including Harvard University, Columbia University and Talks at Google. A television documentary was filmed about Jean and her work.She is trilingual, fluent in Dutch, Chinese, and English, and studied Latin for seven years. Jean immigrated from Hong Kong to Brooklyn when she was five and worked in a Chinatown clothing factory for much of her childhood. She received her bachelor's degree from Harvard and completed an MFA in fiction at Columbia University. She divides her time between the Netherlands and New York City. She's represented by Suzanne Gluck for books, Anna DeRoy for film and tv and Tracy Fisher for foreign rights at WME. For speaking engagements, she's represented by the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau and Authors Unbound. Please see her website for further information: www.jeankwok.com

Listed skills include Writing, Public Speaking, and Burning Food.