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Jean Kwok is a New York Times and international bestselling author. She was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States when she was five years old. She worked in a Chinatown clothing factory for much of her childhood. She won early admission to Harvard, where she worked as many as four jobs at a time, and graduated with honors in English and American literature. She went on to earn an MFA in fiction at Columbia University. Her debut novel, Girl in Translation, was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into over 20 languages. Her other novels include Mambo in Chinatown and Searching for Sylvie Lee. She has appeared on The Today Show and Good Morning America, and spoken at many schools and venues including Harvard University, Columbia University, and the Tucson Festival of Books.