Peter Ho Davies

Peter Ho Davies is a British-American author of Welsh and Chinese descent. Born in Coventry, England, in 1966, he studied at Cambridge University and the University of Manchester, and later received his MA from Boston University. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Michigan. Davies is the author of two short story collections, The Ugliest House in the World (1997) and Equal Love (2000), and two novels: The Welsh Girl (2007) and The Fortunes (2016). The Fortunes is a novel in four parts about the Chinese American experience over more than 150 years, moving from the era of the transcontinental railroad through the exclusion acts, the mid-century Chinese American experience in Hollywood, and a contemporary Chinese adoption story. The novel won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction in 2017 and the Chautauqua Prize, and was widely praised for its ambition, its historical scope, and its lyrical intelligence. Davies's most recent novel The Dearly Beloved (2019) is a meditation on grief and faith. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.