Charles Yu
Personal information
- Known for
- Writing
- Known credits
- 8
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- January 3, 1976
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Also known as
- 游朝凱Charles Yu Chowkai
Biography
Charles Chowkai Yu (born January 3, 1976) is an American writer and lawyer. He is the author of the novels How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown, as well as the short-story collections Third Class Superhero and Sorry Please Thank You. In 2007 he was named a "5 under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation. In 2020, Interior Chinatown won the National Book Award for fiction. Yu created a television adaptation of Interior Chinatown which premiered in 2024.
