“I always used to say strongly that I was not an autobiographical writer, so strongly it was clearly suspicious…Even without this book, I can now say that is just a lie.”

— Yiyun Li

On her book Dear Friend in “Yiyun Li: ‘I used to say that I was not an autobiographical writer – that was a lie’” https://www.thenation.com/article/laila-lalami-interview-the-other-americans/ in The Guardian (2017 Feb 24)

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