Born in Guangzhou, China in 1996 and raised in Texas, author Rebecca F Kuang received an MPhil from Cambridge and an MSc from Oxford and is currently studying for a PhD in East Asian languages and literature at Yale. In 2018 she published the first of a trilogy of fantasy novels, The Poppy War, which is currently being adapted for television. This year, her publishing industry satire Yellowface was widely acclaimed. Her speculative fiction novel Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence, which topped the New York Times bestseller list last year and won a number of awards, is out in paperback on 28 September.
