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Author Yiyun Li

Hear from author Yiyun Li. “I think the best writers always know their characters better than the characters know themselves," she says. The author of “The Book of Goose” talks about “War and Peace,” “Wuthering Heights,” the stories of William Trevor, and her old army buddies.

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