“My ability to write is gone,” Kevin Kwan told his publishing team at Penguin Random House in 2020. “I’m sorry. I lost whatever gift I had. I need to go to cobbler school and learn how to make shoes.”
Kwan is the author of Crazy Rich Asians, which was adapted into the highest-grossing romantic-comedy movie of the 2010s—and the only one to make me cry since Nora Ephron died. Born in Singapore and now based in Los Angeles (when he isn’t traveling the globe), Kwan is known for a breezy brand of jet-set escapism that’s become a publishing phenomenon. Following two best-selling Crazy Rich Asians sequels, China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems, he published a stand-alone novel in 2020, Sex and Vanity. His books are fun, fast, fashionable romps that modernize the Victorian comedy of manners for our late-stage capitalist era.
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