Meet Chloe Gong, One of the Year’s Youngest Best-Selling Authors – The New York Times

Chloe Gong describes her debut novel, “These Violent Delights” as “Romeo and Juliet in 1920s gangster-run Shanghai, about rival gangs hunting a monster together.” -- New York Times Photo
Chloe Gong describes her debut novel, “These Violent Delights” as “Romeo and Juliet in 1920s gangster-run Shanghai, about rival gangs hunting a monster together.” — New York Times Photo

Gong, a Shanghai native who grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is double-majoring in English and international relations. She says she was in her “tiny college apartment” in Philadelphia, working on “something that was due very soon,” when she heard the “surreal but amazing” news: “My editor called me, and my agent was already on the line, and I was trembling. I’m still trembling. The New York Times best-seller list is. … Whoa. Big thing.”

Source: Meet Chloe Gong, One of the Year’s Youngest Best-Selling Authors – The New York Times

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