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Kelly Yang (born August 29, 1984) is an Asian American writer and author of young adult and children's literature. She won the 2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature of her novel, Front Desk and the 2018 Parents’ Choice Gold Medal for Fiction for her book Front Desk, a book based on her experiences as a 10-year-old working at her family's motel business.
In 1993, Finding My Voice also earned the Young People's Literature Award from the Friends of American Writers, [8] and was also placed on the 1994 Young Adults' Choices list by the International Reading Association. [9] In 1997, the novel was featured on the American Library Association list of "Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults." [10]
Louis Chu (雷霆超), author of Eat a Bowl of Tea (1961) Seo-Young Chu (주서영), author of "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe" and "I, Discomfort Woman" Wesley Chu (朱恆昱), science fiction writer; Frances Chung; Philip W. Chung, playwright; Peter Ho Davies; Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla; Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni; Dinesh D'Souza, conservative journalist ...
Quentin Lee (李孟熙) – Canadian / American director, known for gay Asian stories; Justin Lin – director, Better Luck Tomorrow, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious; Freida Lee Mock – Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and co-founder of the American Film Foundation; David Ren – film director, Shanghai Kiss
Finding My Voice is a young adult novel by Marie Myung-Ok Lee (writing as Marie G. Lee). First published in 1992, Finding My Voice was republished in 2001 by Harper Trophy, [1] and was reissued in 2021. [2]
Akemi Dawn Bowman [1] is an American author, best known for her William C. Morris Award Finalist young adult novel Starfish, which follows a Japanese-American teenager named Kiko Himura who grapples with a toxic home life and attempts to find a back-up plan after being rejected for a place at her dream art school. [2]
Heart of a Samurai is a 2010 young adult historical novel by American author Margi Preus. The novel is closely based on the true story of Manjiro Nakahama (1827–1898) and is illustrated by his drawings, with jacket illustration by Jillian Tamaki .
Charlie Higson: Young Bond; S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Tex, That Was Then, This Is Now; Will Hobbs: Downriver, Far North, Crossing the Wire; Amanda Hocking: My Blood Approves Series, Switched Trilogy; Alice Hoffman: Green Angel; Nina Kiriki Hoffman (primarily an author of science fiction): A Stir of Bones, Spirits That Walk in Shadow