Wesleyan Visiting Writer Alexander Chee ’89 was one of 10 authors recently named winners of the Whiting Writers’ Award, given annually since 1985 by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation to “emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise.” Chee, a fiction writer, is the author of Edinburgh (Picador, 2002). An English major at Wesleyan, he is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Chee makes his home in New York City.
