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People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets.

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I'm a writer. I'm naturally introverted, so being the public face of something, I don't think I do it well.

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I have a photographic memory.

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Hollywood is a whole other level of crazy. I've never met so many assistants who have assistants. It's a stratified society on its own.

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'Crazy Rich Asians' may be fiction, but given the situation I grew up in, I've had an unparalleled view into the very real world it depicts.

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As a child, I didn't even realize I was Chinese. I was Singaporean, but my identity was wrapped up in the culture I was experiencing every day.

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I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.

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I was born on the island of Singapore, and I grew up there until I was 11 years old, when I was forcibly removed by my dad and planted into suburban Houston. I was in shock for the first year and then began to really love it - but didn't love it quite enough to stay.

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I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant.

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My golden dream was to move to New York and live in the Village and become that cool rebel beatnik Jack Kerouac.

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Biography

Nationality: Singaporean

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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