Books by Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li is a Chinese American writer. Her first collection of short stories, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the 2005 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. A second collection, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, and a novel, The Vagrants, followed. In 2010, she became a MacArthur Fellow. She is an editor of Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space.
Things in Nature Merely Grow
by Yiyun Li
đ Winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography or Memoir
Yiyun Li reflects on the heartbreaking loss of both of her sons, Vincent and James, to suicide. The 2026 Pulitzer committee described it as a âdeeply moving and revelatory accountâ of unimaginable grief; âan austere and defiant memoir of acceptance that focuses on facts, language and the persistence of life.â
Interviews with Yiyun Li
The Best âAnti-Memoirs’, recommended by Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li, author of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, on the sheer messiness of life, the irrelevance of âIâ, and why brutal honesty is often the truest way to capture the people we love the most
