Celeste wasn’t blind to her abilities as a writer. She was put in the textbooks division and there she stayed for a while. Rather, she got a job at Houghton Mifflin, a publishing house. Despite experimenting with short stories, Celeste Ng did not immediately go into publishing after college. She delved into Asian culture and even studied Mandarin for a year. At the time, Celeste found that she wanted to know where she came from. Transitioning into Harvard University, the author acquired an interest in books, fiction, and nonfiction, that delved into matters of race and culture. She took a liking to British literary classics like ‘The Secret Garden’, not to mention the works of authors like Laura Ingalls Wilder, John D. At first, the author just wanted to escape.īut then as the years passed, her tastes grew more refined. Her parents, a physicist that worked for NASA and a chemist who taught in college, encouraged the habit they even let her read at the dinner table.Ī notable attribute of Celeste’s home was all the books she often left scattered all over the house.

She even got an award for one of her short stories.Ĭeleste Ng read a lot as a child. By that point in her life, the author had begun experimenting with short stories. She also pursued a Creative Writing program at the University of Michigan. Following her graduation from high school in 1998, the author enrolled at Harvard and got her Bachelor’s Degree in English. It was from her experiences in Shaker Heights that the author wrote her first two books, though she did not stay there forever. A student of Shaker Heights City School District and Shaker Heights High School, the author’s time in Shaker Heights had a drastic impact on the person she became in later years. Most of Celeste’s earliest memories revolve around her time in Shaker Heights, Ohio where the family moved from Pittsburgh when she was ten. In the 1960s, they made the decision to migrate to the United States. Her parents were born and lived in Hong Kong. Celeste Ng is an American author of Chinese descent who made waves with ‘Everything I Never Told you’, her debut novel which garnered interest from ordinary readers and celebrities alike.Ĭeleste Ng was born in 1980 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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