Min Jin Lee
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Podcast Appearances
We'll go into that in a moment.
But, you know, you were writing and you were getting so much positive feedback.
I mean, while you were at Yale, you won the Henry Wright Prize for nonfiction and the James Ashman Veatch Prize for fiction.
So you won a fiction and a nonfiction prize.
You didn't think you were a writer and you decide, okay, I'm going to go to law school.
You just had to study law at Georgetown University.
Why did you want to be a lawyer at that point?
I don't think it's so much that I wanted to be a lawyer.
I think that I didn't know what else to do.
And I knew I loved school.
And my father said to me that he would pay for law school.
So I thought, okay, well, I'll go get more education.
So I think that if you told me,
Man, I'll pay for you to get a PhD in classics.
Oh, sign me up.
I'd be tempted.
It's like Latin and Greek.
Yes, let's do it.
Let's do it.