CANTON -- St. Lawrence University’s Writers Series continues its 2016-17 season with award-winning author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Chang-rae Lee at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, in Sykes Common Room. The event is free and open to the public.

Lee is the author of five novels: Native Speaker (1995); A Gesture Life (1999); Aloft (2004); The Surrendered (2010), which was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and On Such a Full Sea (2014).

His novels have won numerous awards and citations, including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the American Book Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, ALA Notable Book of the Year Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, and the NAIBA Book of the Year Award for Fiction. He has also written stories and articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time (Asia), Granta, Conde Nast Traveler, Food & Wine, and several others.

Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale, and the University of Oregon. He is currently a professor of creative writing at Stanford University.

The Writer Series is sponsored by St. Lawrence University’s Department of English. For more information, visit the Department of English at www.stlawu.edu/english or call at 229-5125.