Author Min Jin Lee will be the keynote speaker for the Unbound Book Festival, the fest announced Friday via Facebook post. The lecture will take place at 7:30 p.m. April 18 in Jesse Auditorium on the University of Missouri campus.
Lee's second novel, "Pachinko," has garnered many accolades, notably becoming a National Book Award Finalist in 2017, and has an Apple TV adaptation. The post describes her work as "fiction (that) explores the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, immigration, class, religion, gender and identity of diasporic people."
Admission to hear the keynote speaker is free, according to the Facebook post.
The literature-focused festival will take place April 17-20 in Columbia.
