Hanya Yanagihara

Hanya Yanagihara (born September 20, 1974) is an American novelist and travel writer. She grew up in Hawaii. 2Early life Yanagihara was born in Los Angeles, California, a fourth-generation Hawaiian, to a father who was a hematologist/oncologist, Richard Yanagihara, from Hawaii and a mother who was born in Seoul. She frequently moved around the United States as a child, due to her father's occupation. The family lived in multiple locations, including Hawaii, New York City, Baltimore, Maryland, California, and Texas. She attended Punahou High School in Hawaii. 2Career Following her graduation from the women's college Smith College in 1995, Yanagihara moved to New York and worked for several years as a publicist. In 2007, Yanagihara began writing for Condé Nast Traveler where she became an editor before leaving in 2015 to become a deputy editor at the style magazine T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Her first novel, The People in the Trees, based on the real-life case of the virologist Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, was praised as one of the best novels of 2013. Yanagihara's A Little Life was published in March 2015, again receiving predominantly favorable reviews, and defying expectations by its editor, Yanagihara's agent, and the author herself that it would not sell wel