With his second novel, "The Queen of the Night," whose protagonist was famously an opera singer - but, the reader learns, much else - Alexander Chee proved he could write with the best of them. In his ...

From March 17 to March 20, the UNC English and comparative literature department hosted a series of creative writing events with Dartmouth College professor and bestselling author Alexander Chee as ...

IOWA CITY - Alexander Chee has been named the sixth recipient of the Paul Engle Prize, presented by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization. The prize honors an individual who, like Engle ...

In these reflections, colleagues, friends and admirers recall his risk-taking, his generosity and his insatiable taste for gossip. For Pride Month, we asked people ranging in age from 34 to 93 to ...

This week on The Reading Life: Alexander Chee, a featured guest at the upcoming Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. His new book is the stunning historical novel, The Queen of the Night.

It all started with a musing from novelist, Alexander Chee. “I wish Amtrak had residencies for writers,” he told an interviewer. A few tweets and nine months later, Amtrak has announced its first ...