Han Ong

HAN ONG is an American playwright and novelist. He has written fourteen plays and two novels: Fixer Chao, first published by FSG in 2001, and The Disinherited, published in 2004. Chao has published stories in The New Yorker and Zoetrope and is the recipient of the Joseph Kesselring Prize for his play Swoony Planet, as well as a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction, and the TCG/NEA Playwriting Award. Fixer Chao was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year in 2001, and The Disinherited was nominated for a Lambda Book Award in 2005. Ong lives in New York.