
出生: July 30, 1980 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Celeste Ng is an American novelist whose fiction explores family, identity, race, and belonging in contemporary America. She is best known for Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts; Little Fires Everywhere became a bestselling novel and a Hulu adaptation, expanding her international readership and cultural influence.
Celeste Ng came of age between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family shaped by science, immigration, and the subtle pressures of American belonging. Her parents came to the United States from Hong Kong, and the contrast between outwardly progressive communities and the exclusions that still operated within them became part of her imaginative terrain early on. She studied English at Harvard and later earned an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award. Before she became widely known as a novelist, she built her career through the slower circuits of literary culture, publishing fiction and essays in venues such as One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, and Kenyon Review Online, while also contributing editorial work at Fiction Writers Review. Her online writing life developed through essays, interviews, and literary web publishing rather than through a personality-driven platform. ((https://www.celesteng.com/about))
"Celeste Ng Is More Than a Novelist"
— The New York Times
"Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng's excellent first novel about family, love and ambition, opens with a death"
— Los Angeles Times
"Celeste Ng’s dystopian America is milder than other dystopias, which makes it more believable — and hence, more upsetting"
— New York Times Book Review
"Celeste Ng Tackles Race in the Rust Belt in Little Fires Everywhere"
— TIME
"In her first published novel, Celeste Ng peels back the layers of a grieving family reeling from the loss of their teenage daughter"
— Star Tribune
"Celeste Ng's latest work depicts life-like Asian Americans who hope to make peace with the past and change the future by taking small, self-assured steps"
— NPR
"Best-selling novelist Celeste Ng tackles class in America with her second book"
— The Boston Globe
"Like Sue Monk Kidd or Madeleine Thien, Celeste Ng has a carpenter’s sure touch in constructing nested, interconnected plots"
— Financial Times
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