Ted Chiang Net Worth

He has won numerous awards for his work, including four Hugo Awards, four Nebula Awards, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He is best known for his short stories, which explore themes of science, technology, and philosophy.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Writer
Birth Year 1967
Birth Place  Port Jefferson, New York, United States
Age 56 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Pisces
Occupation Fiction writer, technical writer
Education Brown University (BS)
Period 1990–present
Genre Science fiction, fantasy
Notable works Tower of Babylon (1990) "Story of Your Life" (1998) Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

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Biography/Timeline

1989

Chiang was born in Port Jefferson, New York. Both of his parents were born in China, but immigrated to Taiwan with their families during the Communist Revolution before immigrating to the United States. He graduated from Brown University with a computer science degree and in 1989 graduated from the Clarion Writers Workshop. As of July 2002, he was working as a technical Writer in the software industry and resided in Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle.

2003

Chiang turned down a Hugo nomination for his short story "Liking What You See: A Documentary" in 2003, on the grounds that the story was rushed due to editorial pressure and did not turn out as he had really wanted.

2007

His novelette "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" (2007) was also published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

2012

Chiang was an instructor at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop at UC San Diego in 2012 and 2016.

2013

In 2013, his collection of translated stories Die Hölle ist die Abwesenheit Gottes won the German Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for best foreign science fiction.

2015

Chiang has published fifteen short stories, novelettes, and novellas as of 2015, and has won numerous science fiction awards for his works: a Nebula Award for "Tower of Babylon" (1990); the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992; a Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Award for "Story of Your Life" (1998); a Sidewise Award for "Seventy-Two Letters" (2000); a Nebula Award, Locus Award, and Hugo Award for his novelette "Hell Is the Absence of God" (2002); a Nebula and Hugo Award for his novelette "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" (2007); a British Science Fiction Association Award, a Locus Award, and the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Exhalation" (2009); and a Hugo Award and Locus Award for his novella "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" (2010).

2016

A film adaptation by Eric Heisserer of "Story of Your Life", titled Arrival and directed by Denis Villeneuve, was released in 2016 to a critical and commercial success. It stars Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.