in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1975.
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Read more Youre getting two free audiobooks. After two years at Marquette University, Yep transferred to the University of California at Santa Cruz where he graduated in 1970 with a B.A. His award-winning titles include Newbery Honor Books Dragonwings and Dragons Gate. However, it was while attending high school that he started writing for a science fiction magazine, being paid one cent a word for his efforts. During high school he faced the white American culture for the first time. previous 1 2 3 4 5 next sort by previous 1 2 3 4 5 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. Other students at the school, according to Yep, labeled him a "dumbbell Chinese" because he spoke only English. 27,942 ratings 2,812 reviews shelved 65,483 times Showing 30 distinct works. They later married and now live in San Francisco.Īlthough not living in Chinatown, Yep commuted to a parochial bilingual school there. Joanne Ryder, a children's book author, and Yep met and became friends during college while she was his editor. Two of his books, Dragonwings (1975) and Dragon’s Gate (1993), were named Newbery Honor books. He was in his own words his neighborhood's "all-purpose Asian" and did not feel he had a culture of his own. Prolific Chinese American author Laurence Yep wrote more than 60 children’s and young adult books. Award-winning author Laurence Yep talks about his personal experiences growing up as a Chinese-American and explores how the history of a country and. Growing up in San Francisco, Yep felt alienated. After troubling times during the Depression, he was able to open a grocery store in an African-American neighborhood. Yep's father, Thomas, was born in China and came to America at the age of ten where he lived, not in Chinatown, but with an Irish friend in a white neighborhood. Franche Lee, her family's youngest child, was born in Ohio and raised in West Virginia where her family owned a Chinese laundry. Born Jin San Francisco, California, Yep was the son of Thomas Gim Yep and Franche Lee Yep.
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