C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang is an American writer whose debut novel, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, was published by Riverhead Books in 2020 and is set during the California Gold Rush. The book was a finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction and was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. Zhang was named a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2020, and was a 2022-2023 Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library. Zhang also wrote Land of Milk and Honey, a dystopian science fiction work.