Between Worlds: Contemporary Asian-American Play edited by Misha Berson [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
The first published anthology of plays by Asian American writers features six diverse plays: Nuit Blanche: A Select View of Earthlings by Ping Chong, The Wash by Philip Kan Gotanda, Tenement Lover: no palm...
Searching for Frank Chin
Last summer, I spent what seemed like an inordinate amount of time and effort searching for Frank Chin. Frank Chin, the controversial literary figure, the co-editor of the seminal Asian American texts, <a...
Laurence Yep is a multi-faceted writer. His best-known works include two children's books, Dragonwings and Dragon's Gate, both of which were named Newbery Honor books. His audiences include children and adults of all ages. Although he...
Michi Weglyn's first career, which she began at the age of 21, catapulted her to fame as the first nationally prominent Japanese American costume designer in the United States. By the 1950s,...
Gus Lee, one-time attorney, now full-time writer, began his first book in 1989 as a private memoir. "My daughter asked me to write a family journal and it turned out to be <a href="http://bookdragon.si.edu/1997/03/02/china-boy-by-gus-lee/"...
One day in 1971, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's nephew came to visit. He was taking a sociology course at the University of California at Berkeley and wanted to know more about the concentration...
Frank Chin describes himself first and foremost as "a writer." In the biographical profile he provided after declining to be interviewed, he wrote, "I have written short fiction, plays, nonfiction, reviews, essays, research pieces...