Research Guides: Celeste Ng: Biography

Celeste Ng (Born July 30, 1980)

Following her graduation from high school, Ng attended Harvard University, where she earned her bachelor's degree.She then went to the University of Michigan to earn her master of fine arts degree. While there, she excelled, earning the Hopwood Award. After graduating, she started work on her first novel, a process that took her six years. While working on the book, she took jobs that did not pay particularly well, but that allowed her the time to write, such as freelance proofreading, freelance editing, and creating slides for doctor's presentations. She was also writing other pieces and, in 2012, she had a breakthrough when her short story "Girls, at Play" won a Pushcart Prize. When her novel, Everything I Never Told You, appeared in 2014, it was an immediate critical and commercial success. It was a New York Times Best Seller, named Amazon's Number 1 Best Book of 2014, and won numerous awards. Continue . . .

Source: Schenker, Andrew. “Celeste Ng.” Literary Biographies, June 2018, p. 1. From Literary Reference Center Plus database.

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Celeste Ng Website Celeste Ng is the author of two novels, Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You (2014), was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications. Everything I Never Told You was also the winner of the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the ALA’s Alex Award, and the Medici Book Club Prize, and was a finalist for numerous awards, including the Ohioana Award, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. It has been translated into over two dozen languages.
Celeste Ng, Novelist The article profiles novelist Celeste Ng. The 37-year-old novelist shares about her childhood as a daughter of immigrant parents from Hong Kong who came to America for graduate school. She also mentions the racially charged incidents her family encountered and her books "Little Fires Everywhere," and "Everything I Never Told You."
How to Be Chinese he short story "How to Be Chinese" by Celeste Ng is presented.
Introduction The Summer 2020 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares "the Triton among minnows."" As guest-editor Celeste Ng writes in her introduction, "Stories are more than documentation: they are a portal in time, through which the moment in which the story was written can magically be in conversation with the moment in which the story is read.... The stories that follow will ask you: Do you still remember when the world was like this? Did you care? Is it still like this? Do you want it to be? " The Summer 2020 issue features prose by Charles Yu, Jamel Brinkley, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Karen Shepard, and others.
Trick The short story "Trick" by Celeste Ng is presented.
Disruption for Change: An Interview with Celeste Ng “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves,” wrote the Mexican novelist and screenwriter Laura Esquivel. Celeste’s Ng latest novel Little Fires Everywhere, following the success of her debut novel Everything I Never Told You in 2014, begins with the mystery of a burning house. Explorations of race, identity, morality, family secrets, and the meaning of motherhood all contribute to striking the final match that sets the small town in Ohio ablaze.
Author Celeste Ng Believes That Cultural Visibility Should Include Everyone Celeste Ng is the author of the novels Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You. Her books have been New York Times bestsellers and Amazon year-end Best Books, won multiple awards, and published abroad in over 20 countries. In March 2018, her second book Little Fires Everywhere received a direct-to-series order from Hulu. The series is produced by and will star the actresses Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. Asia Blog caught up with Ng over email to chat about becoming a television producer, writing outside one's own race, and how 2018 might be a breakthrough moment for Asian-Americans on screen.
Celeste Ng - Interviews Selected interviews.
Celeste Ng in conversation with Eve L. Ewing Women & Children First is honored to host New York Times bestselling author Celeste Ng in celebration of the paperback release of “Little Fires Everywhere”.
Celeste Ng | A Word on Words | NPT "I do want my books to talk about things that are important but also to draw the reader in and I feel like those moments of crisis are really the inflection point that really make the story run. They're sort of like the gas on which the the engine of fiction turns." Author Celeste Ng talks to host Mary Laura Philpott about "Little Fires Everywhere" on NPT's A WORD ON WORDS.
Celeste Ng – 2018 National Book Festival Celeste Ng discusses Little Fires Everywhere at the 2018 National Book Festival.