page_title: Charles Yu
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Yu
caption_attribution_description: English: Charles Yu at the 2011 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States.
context_page_description: Charles Yu is a Taiwanese-American writer. He is the author of the novels How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and the short-story collections Third Class Superhero and Sorry Please Thank You. In 2007 he was named a "5 under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation.
  How to Live Safely was ranked the year's second-best science fiction novel by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas and was also a runner up for the Campbell Memorial Award.
context_section_description: Charles Yu (Chinese name: You Chao-Kai/"游朝凱"; born 1976, in Los Angeles) is a Taiwanese-American writer. He is the author of the novels How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and the short-story collections Third Class Superhero and Sorry Please Thank You. In 2007 he was named a "5 under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation.
  How to Live Safely was ranked the year's second-best science fiction novel by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas and was also a runner up for the Campbell Memorial Award.
caption: Charles Yu at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.
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