Hanya Yanagihara

Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer.
* She was born in Los Angeles in 1974 to a Japanese-Hawaiian father and a Korean mother.
* She grew up in Hawaii and attended Punahou School.
* She graduated from Smith College in 1995 with a degree in English.
* After college, she worked as a fact-checker at The New York Times.
* She published her first novel, The People in the Trees, in 2013.
* Her second novel, A Little Life, was published in 2015.
* A Little Life was a critical and commercial success, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
* Yanagihara is currently the editor-in-chief of T Magazine.