![]() ![]() She wrote and was an editor for Condé Nast Traveler. ![]() ![]() ![]() Career Īfter college, Yanagihara moved to New York and worked for several years as a publicist. She has said that "the contemporary writers I admire most are Hilary Mantel, Kazuo Ishiguro, and John Banville". Of Pym and Brookner, she says, "there is a suspicion of the craft that the male writers of their generation didn't have, a metaphysical reckoning of what is it actually doing for the world". Yanagihara has said that her father introduced her as a girl to the work of Philip Roth and to "British writers of a certain age", such as Anita Brookner, Iris Murdoch, and Barbara Pym. She attended the Punahou School in Hawaii before graduating from Smith College in 1995. As a child, Yanagihara moved frequently with her family, living in Hawaii, New York, Maryland, California and Texas. Yanagihara is partly of Japanese descent through her father. Her father, hematologist/ oncologist Ronald Yanagihara, is from Hawaii, and her mother was born in Seoul. Hanya Yanagihara was born in 1974 in Los Angeles. She is best known for her bestselling novel A Little Life, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize, and for being the editor-in-chief of T Magazine. Hanya Yanagihara (born 1974 ) is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer. ![]()
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