C. Pam Zhang

1990–

American novelist and essayist born in Beijing, who moved to the United States at the age of four. She studied at Brown University and completed an MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her debut novel, How Much of These Hills Is Gold (2020), follows two orphaned siblings of Chinese descent in a reimagined gold-rush West; it won the California Book Award and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Her second novel, Land of Milk and Honey (2023), is set in a near future of crop failure. How Much of These Hills Is Gold was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.

Timeline of C. Pam Zhang’s life

Works

• How Much of These Hills Is Gold (2020)

Prizes

• How Much of These Hills Is Gold — The Booker Prize 2020: Longlist