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novelist and short-story writer
Beijing born Yiyun Li is a novelist and short story writer, and a 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow.
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Yiyun Li: Dear Friend, from My Life, I Write to You in Your Life Written about a time when she was hospitalized for depression, Yiyun Li's Dear Friend, from My Life, I Write to You in Your Life is a combination of memoir and essay. She believes that cherished writers saved her from sorrow and suicidal ideation.
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