She has said that after she published her best selling sophomore novel, people in the publishing industry were baffled by her decision to take a job at T. In 2015, she left Condé Nast to become a deputy editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine. It felt, oddly, like being one of those people who adopt a tiger or lion when the cat's a baby and cuddly and manageable, and then watch in dismay and awe when it turns on them as an adult". At its worst, I felt I was somehow losing my ownership over the book. Yanagihara described writing the book at its best as "glorious as surfing it felt like being carried aloft on something I couldn't conjure but was lucky enough to have caught, if for just a moment. A Little Life defied the expectations of its editor, of Yanagihara's agent, and of the author herself, that it would not sell well. Yanagihara was also selected as a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Fiction. The book was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize for fiction, the 2016 Women's Prize for Fiction and won the 2015 Kirkus Prize for fiction. Yanagihara's A Little Life was published on March 10th, 2015, and received widespread critical acclaim. Her first novel, The People in the Trees, partly based on the real-life case of the virologist Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, was praised as one of the best novels of 2013. 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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