Min Jin Lee (born November 11, 1968) is a Korean American novelist and essayist best known for Pachinko, her acclaimed multigenerational novel about a Korean family living in Japan. Born in Seoul, she immigrated to Queens, New York, at age seven and later earned a history degree from Yale University and a law degree from Georgetown before leaving corporate law to pursue writing. Her novels include Free Food for Millionaires, Pachinko, and American Hagwon, and her work frequently explores immigration, identity, class, family, and the Korean diaspora. Pachinko was a National Book Award finalist and was adapted into the Apple TV+ series of the same name.