Author Ha Jin, professor of English at Boston University, reads from his most recently published novel, lt;igt;A Free Lifelt;/igt; (Pantheon, 2007). Jins first full-length novel, lt;igt;Waitinglt;/igt; (Random House, 1999), received the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.