"Depending on where you hang out on the internet, the novelist R.F. Kuang is either an inescapable juggernaut (BookTok, YouTube, Reddit) or a relative unknown-her most celebrated book, 2022's Babel, rated nothing more than the top slot in a roundup by the New York Times Book Review's science fiction and fantasy columnist. Since its publication, however, Babel has become a sensation, hitting the No. 1 spot on the NYT bestseller list and winning the Nebula Award for best novel."
"A debate champion in high school and a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, Kuang won a Marshall scholarship to Cambridge University and earned a postgraduate degree in contemporary Chinese studies at Oxford. She's currently working on a Ph.D. in East Asian languages and literatures at Yale. At 29, Kuang has already finished a draft of her seventh novel."
R.F. Kuang has produced acclaimed novels across genres, including epic fantasy and realist satire. The Poppy War trilogy reimagines Mao as a teenage girl with magical powers and earned early award nominations and inclusion on Time's list of the 100 best fantasy novels. Babel reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won the Nebula Award for best novel. Yellowface satirizes racial attitudes in book publishing. Katabasis represents further recognition. Kuang combines prolific literary output with advanced study—Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, a Marshall scholarship to Cambridge, postgraduate work at Oxford, and Ph.D. study at Yale—and has drafted a seventh novel.
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