Min Jin Lee is a Korean-American author based in Harlem, New York City, whose fiction often deals with the Korean diaspora. She is best known for Free Food for Millionaires (2007) and Pachinko (2017), a finalist for the National Book Award and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Pachinko follows a Korean family across four generations after one young woman moves to Japan. In 2019 Lee became a writer-in-residence at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
