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On my radar: Celeste Ng’s cultural highlights

The Everything I Never Told You author on Netflix’s Hard Knock Wife, Spider-Man and the legacy of James Baldwin
‘What can I say – guilt works’: Celeste Ng. Photograph: Robert Gumpert for The Guardian

The author Celeste Ng was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1980 to parents from Hong Kong. She studied English at Harvard followed by a masters in creative writing at the University of Michigan. Her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, won the Asian/Pacific American award for literature and the American Library Association’s Alex award; it has since been optioned for the big screen. Her 2017 follow-up,Little Fires Everywhere, is a bestseller and is being adapted for TV

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