Yiyun Li and Michael Smith receive Behrman Award for the humanities
Princeton professors Yiyun Li and Michael Smith have received the University’s Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.
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Princeton professors Yiyun Li and Michael Smith have received the University’s Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.
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Where Reasons End, which received the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; the essay collection Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life; and the novels The Vagrants and Must I Go. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Windham-Campbell Prize, among other honors. A contributing editor to A Public Space, she teaches at Princeton University. Praise The brilliant novelist Yiyun Li has started a “War and Peace” book club online at A Public Space. You read twelve pages a day of “War and Peace” in a whole community of readers. And the next thing you...