Author Yangsze Choo’s The Fox Wife, her third book, received multiple accolades in 2024, including: NPR’s “Books We Love”/Favorite Fiction Read; named a Best Book by Time Magazine, and a Most Anticipated Book by LitHub and BookPage; a book pick by Indie Next and LibraryReads; and an Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best Literature and Fiction. Her debut novel, The Ghost Bride (2013), was a New York Times bestseller, selected as a Best Book by Oprah.com, and became a Netflix original series. Her second novel, The Night Tiger (2019), was a Reese’s Book Club Pick, and a Big Jubilee Read selection for Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.

Born into a Malaysian family of Chinese descent, Choo’s father was a diplomat, and she spent her childhood living in Thailand, Germany, Japan, Singapore and the Philippines, where she was born. She speaks English with a British accent and is able to eavesdrop (badly) in several languages. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard and worked as a management consultant before retiring to spend more time with her family and become an author, often writing at night.

Choo lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband, two children and some chickens. She loves reading and eating, is able to do both at the same time, and candidly admits that her novels would not have been possible without large quantities of dark chocolate. After indulging, she must then “scamper on a treadmill like a hamster.”

As a speaker/presenter, Choo is endearing, erudite and engaging. Her lyrical British accent adds to her charm. She narrates the audio version of The Fox Wife.

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