List of Asian American Writers
Encyclopedia
In the fields of Ethnic Studies
and Literary Scholarship
, the term Asian American
is a bit vague. In practice, it usually includes writers from East Asia and South Asia, but not from West Asia (Middle Easterners). At the same time, it often includes Asian Canadian
writers, such as Joy Kogawa and Michael Ondaatje. Occasionally, it refers to Asian authors who have written about their experiences in the Americas. Technically, it could include hispanophone
Asian authors as well.
Ethnic studies
Ethnic studies is the interdisciplinary study of racialized peoples in the world in relation to ethnicity. It evolved in the second half of the 20th century partly in response to charges that traditional disciplines such as anthropology, history, English, ethnology, Asian studies, and orientalism...
and Literary Scholarship
Literary criticism
Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals...
, the term Asian American
Asian American
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians as "Asian” refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan,...
is a bit vague. In practice, it usually includes writers from East Asia and South Asia, but not from West Asia (Middle Easterners). At the same time, it often includes Asian Canadian
Asian Canadian
This is a list of Canadians of Asian ancestry. Asian Canadians comprise the largest visible minority in Canada, at 11% of the Canadian population.- Ethnicity :List of Asian Canadian Demographies according to the 2006 Census- Notable Asian Canadians :...
writers, such as Joy Kogawa and Michael Ondaatje. Occasionally, it refers to Asian authors who have written about their experiences in the Americas. Technically, it could include hispanophone
Hispanophone
Hispanophone or Hispanosphere denotes Spanish language speakers and the Spanish-speaking world. The word derives from the Latin political name of the Iberian Peninsula, Hispania, which comprised basically the territory of the modern states of Spain and Portugal.Hispanophones are estimated at...
Asian authors as well.
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- Meena AlexanderMeena AlexanderMeena Alexander is an internationally acclaimed poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander lives and works in New York City, where she is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College in the and at the CUNY Graduate Center in the...
- Noel AlumitNoel AlumitNoël Alumit is an American novelist, actor, and activist. He has been identified as one of the Top 100 Influential Gay People by Out Magazine. He was born, the second of four children, in Baguio City, the Philippines, and raised in the Los Angeles, United States...
- Emigdio Enrique Alvarez
- Peter BachoPeter BachoPeter Bacho is a writer and teacher best known for his book Cebu which won the American Book Award. The book is considered literary significant among Filipino American literature because of its explorations in themes such as neocolonialism and Filipino-American identity.Bacho also won the...
, American Book AwardAmerican Book AwardThe American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre...
winner for CebuCebu (novel)Cebu is a 1991 novel by Filipino American author Peter Bacho the "most visible figure" of second-generation, native-born Filipino American writing and one of several Seattle novelists in the 1990s to explore the racial history and sociology of Seattle... - Cathy Bao BeanCathy Bao BeanCathy Bao Bean, a writer and educator, is the author of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual . She lives in Blairstown, New Jersey, with her husband, artist Bennett Bean....
- Bette Bao LordBette Bao LordBette Bao Lord is a Chinese American writer and civic activist for human rights and democracy.-Biography:She was born in Shanghi, China. With her mother and father, Dora and Sandys Bao, she came to the United States at the age of eight when her father, a British-trained engineer, was sent there...
(包柏漪) - Mei-Mei Berssenbruge, poet
- Cecilia Manguerra BrainardCecilia Manguerra BrainardCecilia Manguerra Brainard is a Filipina author of fiction based in California, U.S.A.. She was born in Cebu, Philippines, attended St. Theresa's College in Cebu and in San Marcelino, Manila. She also went to Maryknoll College in Quezon City from 1964 to 1968, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts...
- Marina Budhoshttp://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Budhos+Marina
- Carlos BulosanCarlos BulosanAlso known as Julius Zafra , a Filipino, an English-language novelist and poet who spent most of his life in the United States, and is best known for the semi-autobiographical America Is in the Heart.-Life and career:Carlos Bulosan was born to Ilocano parents in...
- Lan CaoLan CaoLan Cao is the author of the 1997 novel Monkey Bridge and is a professor of law at the College of William and Mary.Cao was born in Vietnam and experienced the Vietnam War as a civilian. She moved to the United States when she was 13. Cao received her B.A. in political science from Mount Holyoke...
- Celso Al Carunungan
- Linda Ty CasperLinda Ty CasperLinda Ty Casper is a Filipino writer who has published over fifteen books, including the historical novel DreamEden and the political novels Awaiting Trespass, Wings of Stone, A Small Party in a Garden, and Fortress in the Plaza...
- Theresa Hak Kyung ChaTheresa Hak Kyung ChaTheresa Hak Kyung Cha was an Korean American novelist and artist most famous for her 1982 work, Dictee....
- Jeffery Paul ChanJeffery Paul ChanJeffery Paul Chan is a Chinese American author. He is a professor of Asian American studies and English at San Francisco State University, where he also received his masters degree and has taught for 38 years until his retirement....
- Diana ChangDiana ChangDiana Chang is a Chinese American novelist and poet. She is best known for her novel The Frontiers of Love, one of the earliest novels by an Asian American woman...
, novelist - Eileen ChangEileen ChangEileen Chang was a Chinese writer. Her most famous works include Lust, Caution and Love in a Fallen City....
- Emmeline Chang
- Hsin-hai Chang
- Iris ChangIris ChangIris Shun-Ru Chang was an American historian and journalist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004...
(張純如) - Leonard ChangLeonard ChangLeonard Chang is a Korean American writer of short stories and novels.His short stories have appeared in a variety of literary journals including The Crescent Review, The Literary Review, and Prairie Schooner...
- Lia Chang
- Evelina Chao
- Patricia Chao, author of Monkey King: A Novel and Mambo Peligroso: A Novel
- Alexander CheeAlexander CheeAlexander Chee is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.Born in Rhode Island, he spent his childhood in South Korea, Kauai, Truk, Guam and Maine...
- Su Hua Ling Chen
- Yuan-tsung Chen
- Nien Cheng
- Anna Chennault
- King-Kok CheungKing-Kok CheungKing-Kok Cheung is an American literary critic specializing in Asian American literature and is a professor in the department of English at UCLA. Cheung received her Ph.D...
- Cheng Sait Chia
- Fay Chiang
- Monlin Chiang
- Ted ChiangTed ChiangTed Chiang is an American speculative fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan.He was born in Port Jefferson, New York and graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and resides in Bellevue, near...
, Hugo and Nebula Award winner - Frank ChinFrank ChinFrank Chin is an American author and playwright.- Life and career :Frank Chin was born in Berkeley, California, but was raised to the age of six by a retired Vaudeville couple in Placerville, California. At six his mother brought him back to the San Francisco Bay Area to live in Oakland Chinatown...
(趙健秀) - Marilyn ChinMarilyn ChinMarilyn Chin is an American poet who grew up in Portland, Oregon, after her family immigrated from Hong Kong. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Her awards include two National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Stegner Fellowship, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award,...
- Mei ChinMei ChinMei Chin is a fiction and food writer living in Dublin.Her short stories have appeared in Fiction and Bomb Magazine and are characterized by a combination of the fantastic and the mundane.She won the James Beard Foundation's M.F.K...
- Frank Ching
- Christina Chiu
- Tony Chiu
- Kah Kyung ChoKah Kyung ChoKah Kyung Cho is an American philosopher He specializes in phenomenology, hermeneutics, contemporary German philosophy, and East-West comparative philosophy. He has worked with continental philosophers such as Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer...
, philosopher - Eric Chock
- Susan ChoiSusan ChoiSusan Choi is an American novelist. Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana to a Korean father and the American daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. When she was nine years old, her parents divorced. She and her mother moved to Houston, Texas. Choi earned a B.A. in Literature from Yale University ...
- Deepak ChopraDeepak ChopraDeepak Chopra is an Indian medical doctor, public speaker, and writer on subjects such as spirituality, Ayurveda and mind-body medicine. Chopra began his career as an endocrinologist and later shifted his focus to alternative medicine. Chopra now runs his own medical center, with a focus on...
- Louis ChuLouis ChuLouis Hing Chu was a pioneer of Asian American literature with his only published work Eat a Bowl of Tea.Immigrating to New Jersey from Toishan, China, Chu completed a high school education and followed to receive a bachelor's degree from Upsala College and a Masters degree in sociology from New...
, author of Eat a Bowl of Tea (novel)Eat a Bowl of Tea (novel)Eat a Bowl of Tea is a 1961 novel by Louis Chu. It was the first Chinese American novel set in Chinese America. Because of its portrayal of the "bachelor society" in New York's Chinatown after World War II, it has become an important work in Asian American studies. It has been cited as an influence...
(1961) - Chuang Hua
- Philip W. ChungPhilip W. ChungPhilip W. Chung is a Korean American playwright, co-founder of Los Angeles-based Lodestone Theatre Ensemble and its current co-artistic director.- Career :...
, playwright - Dinesh D'SouzaDinesh D'SouzaDinesh D'Souza is an author and public speaker and a former Robert and Karen Rishwain Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is currently the President of The King's College in New York City. D'Souza is a noted Christian apologist and conservative writer and speaker....
(conservative journalist) - Tony D'Souza
- Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniChitra Banerjee DivakaruniChitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program....
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- George EstradaGeorge EstradaGeorge Estrada, Jr. was born in Manila and came to America at the age of 3 with his mother, Milagros Estrada. He grew up in Oakland, California. He earned a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a reporter and columnist with the Oakland Tribune from 1976 to 1992, and a...
- Sui Sin Far, a.k.a. Edith Maude EatonEdith Maude EatonSui Sin Far was an author known for her writing about Chinese people in North America and the Chinese American experience...
- Ben FeeBen FeeBen Fee was a Chinese American writer and labor organizer who rose to prominence in the Chinatowns of San Francisco and New York in the mid-twentieth century...
- Eugie FosterEugie FosterEugie Foster is a Nebula Award winning Asian American short story writer, columnist, and editor. Her stories have been published in a number of magazines and book anthologies, including Fantasy Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, and Interzone. Her...
, Nebula Award winner - Luis Francia
- June Fujita
- Fan WuFan WuFan Wu is a Chinese-American novelist.-Biography:Fan Wu grew up on a state-run farm in southern China where her parents were exiled during the Cultural Revolution. She came to the United States for graduate studies at Stanford University in 1997, began working at Yahoo! Inc. in 1999, and began to...
- Francis FukuyamaFrancis FukuyamaYoshihiro Francis Fukuyama is an American political scientist, political economist, and author. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford. Before that he served as a professor and director of the International Development program at the School of...
- V.V. GaneshananthanV.V. GaneshananthanV.V. Ganeshananthan is a Sri Lankan American fiction writer, essayist, and journalist.Ganeshananthan is the author of Love Marriage, a novel set in Sri Lanka and North America, which was published by Random House in April 2008. Love Marriage was named one of the Washington Post Book World's Best of...
- Zulfikar GhoseZulfikar GhoseZulfikar Ghose is a novelist, poet and essayist. A native of Pakistan who has long lived in Texas, he writes in the surrealist mode of much Latin American fiction, blending fantasy and harsh realism....
- Prince GomolvilasPrince GomolvilasPrince Gomolvilas is a Thai American playwright. He has written many plays which have been produced in the United States and won several distinctive awards....
- Nestor Vicente M. Gonzalez
- Philip Kan GotandaPhilip Kan GotandaPhilip Kan Gotanda is an American playwright and filmmaker. Much of his work deals with Asian American issues and experiences.- Biography :...
- Vince GoteraVince GoteraVince Gotera is an American poet and writer, best known as Editor of the North American Review. In 1996, Nick Carbó called him a "leading Filipino-American poet of this generation"; later, in 2004, Carbó described him as "one of the leading Asian American poets .....
- Han SuyinHan SuyinHan Suyin , is the pen name of Elizabeth Comber, born Rosalie Elisabeth Kuanghu Chow . She is a Chinese-born Eurasian author of several books on modern China, novels set in East Asia, and autobiographical works, as well as a physician...
- Jessica HagedornJessica HagedornJessica Tarahata Hagedorn is a Filipino-American playwright, writer, poet, storyteller, musician, and multimedia performance artist.-Biography:...
- Haing Ngor
- Margaret N. Harada
- Sadakichi Hartmann
- Reiko Hatsumi
- S. I. HayakawaS. I. HayakawaSamuel Ichiye Hayakawa was a Canadian-born American academic and political figure of Japanese ancestry. He was an English professor, and served as president of San Francisco State University and then as United States Senator from California from 1977 to 1983...
- Le Ly Hayslip
- Joseph HecoJoseph HecoJoseph Heco was the first Japanese person to be naturalized as a United States citizen and the first to publish a Japanese language newspaper.-Early years:...
- Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award winner
- Tess Uriza HoltheTess Uriza HoltheTess Uriza Holtheis a Filipino-American writer, who was born and raised in Bernal Heights, San Francisco and is best known for her National Bestselling novel When the Elephants Dance.-Biography:...
- Garrett HongoGarrett HongoGarrett Hongo is a Yonsei, fourth-generation Japanese American academic, poet and academic. The work of this Pulitzer-nominated writer draws on Japanese American history and own experiences.-Educational background:...
- Bill HosokawaBill HosokawaWilliam Kumpai Hosokawa was a Japanese American author and journalist who worked for 38 years at The Denver Post, before retiring as the editorial page editor from that particular paper in 1984. Hosokawa retired from the newspaper industry in 1992.Hosokawa was also a prolific author...
- Jeanne Wakatsuki HoustonJeanne Wakatsuki HoustonJeanne Wakatsuki Houston is an American writer. Her writings are mostly focused on the ethnic diversity of the United States...
- Arthur Hu (Asian Week conservative columnist)
- TC HuoTC HuoTC Huo is a Laotian American author, of Chinese descent, who emigrated from Laos to the United States in 1980 and now lives in Oakland, California. He has written books such as A Thousand Wings and Land of Smiles. In 2001, he received the award for adult fiction from the Asian/Pacific American...
- David Henry HwangDavid Henry HwangDavid Henry Hwang is an American playwright who has risen to prominence as the preeminent Asian American dramatist in the U.S.He was born in Los Angeles, California and was educated at the Yale School of Drama and Stanford University...
(黃哲倫) (playwright) - Patricia Ikeda
- Lawson Fusao InadaLawson Fusao InadaLawson Fusao Inada is an American poet and was the fifth poet laureate of the U.S. state of Oregon.-Early life:Inada is a third-generation Japanese American...
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Shizue Ishimoto
- Sylvia Jang
- Steven Javellana
- Gish JenGish JenGish Jen is a contemporary American writer.-Background:...
- Ha JinHa JinJīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin . Ha comes from his favorite city, Harbin.-Early life:...
- Jeanne Joe
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- Cynthia KadohataCynthia KadohataCynthia Kadohata is a Japanese American writer known for winning the 2005 Newbery Medal. Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986....
- Hizakazu Kaneko
- Michiko KakutaniMichiko Kakutaniis an American Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for The New York Times and is considered by many to be a leading literary critic in the United States.-Life and career:...
- Michael KangMichael Kang (director)Michael Kang is an American film director and screen writer. He is Korean American and based in Los Angeles....
- Minsoo Kang (historian and writer)Minsoo Kang (historian and writer)Minsoo Kang is a historian and writer. Currently, he is an assistant professor of European intellectual history in the Department of History at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Kang is also an expert on the history of automata in science and in fiction.Kang has published numerous books and...
- Younghill KangYounghill KangYounghill Kang was an important early Asian American writer. He is best known for his 1931 novel The Grass Roof and its sequel, the 1937 fictionalized memoir East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee. He has been called "the father of Korean American literature."- Life and career :As a...
, novelist - Hiroshi KashiwagiHiroshi KashiwagiHiroshi Kashiwagi is a Nisei poet, playwright and actor. For his writing and performance work on stage he is considered an early pioneer of Asian American theatre.-Biography:...
, poet, playwright, novelist - Soji KashiwagiSoji KashiwagiSoji Kashiwagi is a Sansei journalist, playwright and producer. He is the Executive Producer for the Grateful Crane Ensemble theatre company in Los Angeles...
, playwright - Nora Okja KellerNora Okja KellerNora Okja Keller is a Korean American author. Her 1997 breakthrough work of fiction, Comfort Woman, and the 2002 sequel, Fox Girl, focus on multigenerational trauma resulting from Korean women's experiences as sex slaves, euphemistically called comfort women, for Japanese troops during World War...
, author of Comfort Woman (1997) and Fox Girl (2002) - Charles Kikuchi
- Akemi Kikumura
- Elaine H. KimElaine H. KimElaine H. Kim is an award winning writer, editor and professor in Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Kim is widely published in her field. Some of her books include Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism ; Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women...
, author of Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context - Jaegwon KimJaegwon KimJaegwon Kim is a Korean American philosopher currently working at Brown University. He is best known for his work on mental causation and the mind-body problem. Key themes in his work include: a rejection of Cartesian metaphysics, the limitations of strict psychophysical identity, supervenience,...
, philosopher - Patti KimPatti Kim (writer)Patti Kim is a Korean American writer, a Diane Cleaver fellow and the author of the award winning novel A Cab Called Reliable.-Biography:...
- Peter Kim
- Richard E. KimRichard E. KimRichard Eun Kook Kim was a Korean-American writer and professor of literature. He was the author of The Martyred , The Innocent , and Lost Names , and many other works. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and was a recipient of a Fulbright grant...
, novelist - Ronyoung KimRonyoung KimRonyoung Kim , aka Kim Ronyoung, was the pen name of Gloria Hahn, a Korean American writer. She was born and raised to Korean immigrants in Los Angeles's Koreatown and died not long after finishing Clay Walls , a Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel about a Korean family that leaves Japanese-occupied...
- Young Ik Kim
- Maxine Hong KingstonMaxine Hong KingstonMaxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United...
(novelist) - Dorinne K. KondoDorinne K. KondoDorinne K. Kondo is a Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at the University of Southern California. Kondo is author of Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace and About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater...
- Geraldine Kudaka
- Alexander Kuo
- Helena Kuo
- Jean KwokJean KwokJean Kwok is a contemporary Chinese American writer and the author of the national bestseller Girl in Translation.-Biography:Jean Kwok was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Brooklyn, New York when she was five years old. While living in a roach-infested apartment without central heating, she...
, author of Girl in Translation (2010) - Dan KwongDan KwongDan Kwong is an American performance artist, writer, teacher and visual artist. He has been presenting his solo performances since 1989, often drawing upon his own life experiences to explore personal, historical and social issues. He is of mixed Asian American heritage...
- Jhumpa LahiriJhumpa LahiriJhumpa Lahiri is a Bengali American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies , won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake , was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna, which she says are both...
- Him Mark LaiHim Mark LaiHim Mark Lai was an American historian. He was known as the “Dean of Chinese American History” by his academic peers, despite the fact that he was professionally trained as a mechanical engineer with no advanced training in the academic field of History.-Life:Him Mark Lai co-taught the first...
- Andrew LamAndrew LamAndrew Lam is a Vietnamese American writer. He was born in South Vietnam, where he led a privileged life as the son of General Lâm Quang Thi of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He attended Lycée Yersin in Dalat....
- Alan Chong Lau
- Wendy Law-Yone
- Le Thi Diem ThuyLê thi diem thúyLê Thị Diễm Thúy is an award-winning poet, novelist, and performer. Her pen name is lê thi diem thúy. She was born in the South Vietnamese village of Phan Thiết on January 12, 1972 during the heart of the Vietnam War.-Life:...
- Chang-Rae LeeChang-Rae LeeChang-rae Lee is a Korean American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Princeton University, where he has served as the director of Princeton's Program in Creative Writing.-Early life:...
- Chin-yang Lee
- Ching Yang Lee (黎錦揚)
- Ed Bok LeeEd Bok LeeEd Bok Lee is the author of Real Karaoke People, a national best-seller in poetry and winner of a PEN/Open Book Award, an Asian American Literary Award , and a Many Voices Prize. Lee's second book is entitled Whorled .Lee was born in Fargo, North Dakota and raised in South Korea, North Dakota, and...
- Gus LeeGus LeeGus Lee is a best-selling American author and ethicist. He was born in San Francisco, a place he recounts in his childhood memoir/novel China Boy . He attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, did graduate study in East Asian History and obtained a J.D. degree from the University of...
(李健孫) - Helie Lee
- Henry K. Lee (Chinese-American, reporter, S.F. Chronicle)
- Li-Young LeeLi-Young LeeLi-Young Lee is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His maternal grandfather was Yuan Shikai, China's first Republican President, who attempted to make himself emperor...
- Virginia Lee
- William Poy Lee
- Carol Lem
- Monfoon Leong
- Russell LeongRussell LeongRussell Charles Leong is an academic editor, a professor, a writer, and Chen Taichiquan instructor. He is currently an adjunct professor English and Asian-American studies at the University of California at Los Angeles...
- Janet Lim
- Shirley Geok-lin LimShirley Geok-lin LimShirley Geok-lin Lim was born in Malacca Malaysia. She is an American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. Her first collection of poems, Crossing The Peninsula, published in 1980, won her the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first both for an Asian and for a woman...
- Adet and Anor Lin
- Alice Lin
- Ed Lin
- Grace Lin
- Hazel Ai Chun Lin
- Amy Ling
- Lin Tai-yi
- Lin Yutang
- Linh DinhLinh DinhLinh Dinh is a Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer, translator, and photographer. He was a 1993 Pew Fellow.-Biography:...
- Eric LiuEric LiuEric P. Liu is an American writer living in Seattle, Washington.- Life and career :He was born in Poughkeepsie, New York to Chinese parents whose immigrated from Taiwan. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was in Skull and Bones, and Harvard Law School and is a former lecturer at...
- Stephen Liu
- Vyvyane LohVyvyane LohVyvyane Loh is a Malaysian-American novelist, choreographer, and physician.-Biography:Loh was born in Ipoh, Malaysia of an ethnic Chinese family. She grew up in Singapore and completed a degree in Biology and Classics at Boston University in the United States...
- Virginia S. Loh
- Jean Yee Long
- David Wong LouieDavid Wong LouieDavid Wong Louie is an American writer of novels and short stories.- Literary career :He received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa in 1981 and a B.A. from Vassar College in 1977...
- Pardee Lowe
- Alvin Lu
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- Adeline Yen MahAdeline Yen MahAdeline Yen Mah is a Chinese American author and physician. She grew up in Tianjin, Shanghai and Hong Kong with an older sister, Lydia ; three older brothers, Gregory , Edgar and James ; and a younger half brother, Franklin and half sister, Susan...
(馬嚴君玲) - Michelle MalkinMichelle MalkinMichelle Malkin is an American conservative blogger, political commentator, and author. Her weekly syndicated column appears in a number of newspapers and websites. She is a Fox News Channel contributor and has been a guest on MSNBC, C-SPAN, and national radio programs...
(conservative newspaper columnist) - Haru Matsui (Ayako Ishigaki)
- Ruthanne Lum McCunn
- Sumie Seo Michina
- Janice Mirikatani
- Kazuo Miyamoto
- Mong-LanMong-LanMong Lan is a Vietnamese-born American poet, writer, painter, photographer and Argentine tango dancer and educator.-Life:Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, Mong-Lan left her native Vietnam on the last day of evacuation of Saigon.-Career:...
- P. C. Morantte
- Toshio MoriToshio MoriToshio Mori is an American author, best known for being one of the earliest Japanese American writers to publish a book of fiction.-Biography:...
- Bharati MukherjeeBharati MukherjeeBharati Mukherjee is an award-winning Indian-born American writer. She is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.-Background:...
- Milton MurayamaMilton MurayamaMilton Murayama is an American Nisei novelist and playwright. His first novel, All I Asking for Is My Body is considered a classic novel of the experiences of Japanese Americans in Hawaii before and during World War II.-Biography:Murayama was born in Maui, Hawaii to Japanese immigrant parents...
- Tahira Naqvi
- Ken NarasakiKen NarasakiKen Narasaki is a Sansei playwright and actor. He is the former Literary Manager at East West Players theatre company in Los Angeles...
, playwright - Il-Han New
- Aimee NezhukumatathilAimee NezhukumatathilAimee Nezhukumatathil is an Asian American poet, best known for her jovial and accessible reading style and lush descriptions of exotic foods and landscapes...
- Fae Myenne NgFae Myenne NgFae Myenne Ng is an American novelist, and short story writer.-Life:She is the daughter of seamstress and a laborer, who immigrated from Guangzhou, China. She attended the University of California-Berkeley, and received her M.F.A. at Columbia University...
- Tran Thi Nga and Wendy Larson
- Bich Minh Nguyen
- Kien NguyenKien NguyenKien Nguyen , born in Nha Trang, South Vietnam, 1967, is an author. Kien was born to a Vietnamese mother from a once wealthy family and an American civil engineer. His mother's family, who had lost their wealth when the French left Vietnam, lived among neighbors who treated them as pariahs because...
- Qui NguyenQui NguyenQui Nguyen is a Vietnamese American playwright and fight director. He is an artistic director of the Obie Award and Caffe Cino Award winning Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company, whose productions, penned and choreographed by Nguyen, have performed to sold-out audiences at the New York International...
- Nguyen Qui DucNguyen Qui DucNguyen Qui Duc is a Vietnamese American radio broadcaster, writer, editor and translator.Born in Da Lat, Vietnam, he came to the United States in 1975, returning in the fall of 2006 to live in Hanoi, Vietnam...
- Barbara Noda
- Yone NoguchiYone NoguchiYone Noguchi, or Yonejirō Noguchi, born 野口 米次郎 / Noguchi Yonejirō , was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He was the father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi.-Early life:Noguchi was born in the town of Tsushima, near Nagoya...
- Sigrid NunezSigrid Nunez-Biography:Sigrid Nunez is the daughter of a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. She was born and raised in New York City. She received her BA from Barnard College and her MFA from Columbia University. After finishing school she worked for a time as an editorial assistant at The New York...
- Francis Naohiko Oka
- John OkadaJohn OkadaJohn Okada was a Japanese-American writer. Born in Seattle, Washington, he was a student at the University of Washington when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Okada and his family were interned at Minidoka in 1942...
- Gary OkihiroGary OkihiroGary Y. Okihiro is an Asian American author and scholar. He is a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University in New York City and the founding director of Columbia's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. Okihiro received his Ph.D...
- Daniel OkimotoDaniel Okimoto-Early life:Okimoto graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1965; and his post-graduate studies at Harvard University earned a Master's Degree in 1967. He continued his studies at the University of Tokyo from 1968 through 1970. His Ph.D...
- Miné OkuboMiné OkuboMiné Okubo , a pioneering Nisei woman, artist and writer, created approximately 2000 drawings and sketches of her experiences while confined along with approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans in US internment camps following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...
- Shelley Ayame Nishimura Ota
- Induk Pahk
- Pai Hsien-yungPai Hsien-yungKenneth Hsien-yung Pai , born July 11, 1937) is a writer who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer." He was born in Guilin, Guangxi, China at the cusp of both the Second Sino-Japanese War and subsequent Chinese Civil War...
Chinese Muslim writer - Gary PakGary PakGary Pak is a writer, editor and professor of English at University of Hawaii. Pak has been noted as one of the most important Asian Hawaiian writers.-Biography:...
, author of Children of a Fireland: A Novel (2004) and Language of the Geckos and Other Stories (2005) - Ty PakTy PakTy Pak is a prolific and acclaimed writer and a distinguished speaker on Korean affairs and literature.-Biography:Pak was born in Korea during World War II. In his home country, Pak witnessed Japanese colonial rule, Korea's liberation from Japan in 1945, the division of Korea during the subsequent...
http://www.sejongsociety.org/2007writing/2007_writing_judges.html#pak, author of Guilt Payment (1983) and Moonbay: Short Stories (1999) - Therese ParkTherese ParkTherese Park is a Korean author, now living in the USA. An accomplished cellist, she moved to the USA to perform with the Kansas City Philharmonic in 1966...
- Andrew X. PhamAndrew X. Phamtrained and graduated from UCLA as an aerospace engineer. He worked at United Airlines as an aircraft engineer before switching career to become a writer while pursuing dual graduate degrees, M.B.A and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, specializing in orbital debris...
- Aimee PhanAimee PhanAimee Phan is an Vietnamese-American author. She was born and raised in Orange County, California. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she won a Maytag Fellowship. Her first novel, We Should Never Meet, was named a Notable Book by the Kiriyama Prize in fiction and a finalist...
- Lee Yan Phou
- A.K. Ramanujan
- Bino RealuyoBino RealuyoBino A. Realuyo is a Filipino-American novelist, poet, community organizer and adult educator. He was born and raised in Manila, Philippines but spent most of his adult life in New York City. His acclaimed novel, The Umbrella Country published in 1999 by Ballantine Reader's Circle, Random House was...
- Paisley Rekdal
- Rishi ReddiRishi ReddiRishi Reddi is an American author. She was born in Hyderabad, India and grew up in the United Kingdom and the United States.Reddi is a graduate of Swarthmore College, where she studied English, and the Northeastern University School of Law. In 2001, she earned a masters degree in creative writing...
- Barbara Jane ReyesBarbara Jane ReyesBarbara Jane Reyes is an American poet whose work "explores the translatable and untranslatable collisions of writing self and culture."She was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley...
- Sabir Hussain Sabir
- Patsy Sumi Saiki
- Bienvenido SantosBienvenido SantosBienvenido N. Santos was a Filipino-American fictionist, poet and nonfiction writer. He was born and raised in Tondo, Manila. His family roots are originally from Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines...
- Rahadyan SastrowardoyoRahadyan SastrowardoyoRahadyan Timoteo Sastrowardoyo — born 1963 in New York City — is a writer, editor and photographer. He is an American of Indonesian and Filipino ancestry.Sastrowardoyo was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and attended P.S...
- Allen SayAllen SayAllen Say is an Asian American author and illustrator best known for his book Grandfather's Journey, a picture book detailing his grandfather's voyage from Japan to the United States and back again, which won the 1994 Caldecott Medal. This story is autobiographical, and relates to Say's constant...
- Theary Seng
- T. K. SeungT. K. SeungT. K. Seung is a Korean American philosopher and literary critic. His academic interests cut across diverse philosophical and literary subjects, including ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, cultural hermeneutics, and ancient Chinese philosophy....
, philosopher - Jon Shirota
- Linda Ching Sledge
- Monica SoneMonica SoneMonica Sone was a Japanese American writer, best known for her 1953 autobiographical memoir Nisei Daughter, which tells of the Japanese American experience in Seattle during the 1920s and 30s, and in the World War II internment camps and which is an important text in Asian American and Women's...
, autobiographer - Cathy SongCathy SongCathy Song is an Asian-American poet. She is the 1982 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for her collection Picture Bride. Song now resides in Kahala, Hawaii.-Personal life:Song was born in Wahiawa, Hawaii...
- Dao Strom
- Etsu Inagaki SugimotoEtsu Inagaki SugimotoThe Japanese autobiographer and novelist Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto was born 1874 in the province Echigo in Japan daughter of a karō from Nagaoka....
- Arthur Sze
- Mai-Mai Sze
T-Z
- Eileen TabiosEileen TabiosEileen Tabios is an award-winning Filipino-American poet, fiction writer, conceptual/visual artist, editor, anthologist, critic, and publisher....
- Ronald TakakiRonald TakakiRonald Toshiyuki Takaki was an academic, historian, ethnographer and author. Born in Oahu, Hawai'i, his work addresses stereotypes of Asian Americans, such as the model minority concept.-Early life:...
(UC Berkeley history professor) - Shizuye Takashima
- Kathleen Tamagawa
- Amy TanAmy TanAmy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. Her most well-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages...
(novelist) - Ronald TanakaRonald Phillip Tanaka-Life:He was a Sansei , born in the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona in 1944 behind barbed wire.He graduated from Pomona College, from the University of California, Berkley with a Ph.D...
- Camy Tang
- Hanama Tasaki
- Eleanor Wong Telemaque
- Tim ToyamaTim ToyamaTim Toyama is a playwright and producer. He is Sansei presently living in Los Angeles, CA. He is co-founder of the Asian American media company Cedar Grove Productions, and its sister Asian American theatre company, Cedar Grove OnStage. He attended C.S.U.N...
, playwright - Barbara TranBarbara TranBarbara Tran is an American poet.Born in New York City, she received her B.A. from New York University and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. She coedited the anthology Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose and guest edited Viet Nam: Beyond the Frame, a special issue of Michigan...
- Tran Van Dinh
- Monique TruongMonique TruongMonique T.D. Truong is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Truong left Vietnam for the United States in 1975 and graduated from high school in Houston, Texas...
- H.T. Tsiang, novelist of the 1930s, And China Has Hands (1937), etc.
- Kitty Tsui
- Gail TsukiyamaGail TsukiyamaGail Tsukiyama is an American novelist from San Francisco, California, USA. She was one of nine fiction authors to appear during the first Library of Congress National Book Festival...
- Yoshiko UchidaYoshiko Uchida-Life:Yoshiko Uchida was the daughter of Japanese immigrants Takashi and Iku Uchida. Her father came to the United States from Japan in 1903 and worked for the San Francisco offices of Mitsui and Company...
- Loung UngLoung UngLoung Ung is a Cambodian American human-rights activist, an internationally-recognized lecturer, and the national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World...
*Jose Garcia Villa - David Rafael Wang
- Onoto Watanna, a.k.a. Winnifred EatonWinnifred EatonWinnifred Eaton, was a Canadian author. Although she was of Chinese-British ancestry, she published under the Japanese pseudonym, Onoto Watanna.- Biography :...
- Katherine Wei
- Yung Wing
- Jade Snow WongJade Snow WongJade Snow Wong was an American ceramic artist and author of two autobiographical volumes.- Biography :Wong was born in San Francisco and brought her family that maintained traditional Chinese customs...
- May Wong
- Nellie WongNellie WongNellie Wong is a poet and activist for feminist and socialist causes.-Biography:Wong was born in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrants. Her father had immigrated to Oakland in 1912....
- Raymond K. WongRaymond K. WongRaymond Kin Wong is an American actor and writer.He is the author of the award-winning novel, The Pacific Between. He was also named as one of Pittsburgh Magazines 25 Most Beautiful People in 2007.-Career:Raymond K. Wong began his career as an Information Technology Consultant...
- Shawn Hsu Wong
- Su-ling Wong
- Merle WooMerle WooMerle Woo has worked as a spokesperson, teacher, poet and activist throughout her life.-Biography:Merle Woo was born to a Korean mother and Chinese father, Helene Chang and Richard Woo, in San Francisco on October 24, 1941. She grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown with her mother, a clerical...
- Sung J. WooSung J. WooSung J. Woo is a Korean-American writer. He was born in Seoul, South Korea.- Personal :Woo came to the United States in 1981, when he was ten years old. He grew up in Ocean Township, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in English from Cornell University in 1994 and received his M.F.A. in Creative...
- K.C. Wu
- Fan WuFan WuFan Wu is a Chinese-American novelist.-Biography:Fan Wu grew up on a state-run farm in southern China where her parents were exiled during the Cultural Revolution. She came to the United States for graduate studies at Stanford University in 1997, began working at Yahoo! Inc. in 1999, and began to...
- Mitsuye YamadaMitsuye YamadaMitsuye Yamada is a Japanese American activist, feminist, essayist, poet, story writer, editor, and former professor of English.-Early and personal life:Mitsuye Yamada was born as Mitsuye Yasutake in Fukuoka, Japan...
- Hisaye YamamotoHisaye YamamotoHisaye Yamamoto was a Japanese American author. She is best known for the short story collection Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories, first published in 1988...
- Lois-Ann YamanakaLois-Ann YamanakaLois-Ann Yamanaka is a Japanese-American poet and novelist from Hawaii. Many of her critically acclaimed literary works are written in Hawaiian Pidgin, and some of her writing has dealt with controversial ethnic issues...
- Wakako YamauchiWakako yamauchiWakako Yamauchi is a Nisei Asian American female writer. Her plays are considered pioneering works in Asian American theatre.- Biography :...
- John Yau
- Chiang Yee
- Lisa Yee
- Chun-chan Yeh
- Liang Yen
- Charles YuCharles YuCharles Yu is an Asian American writer. He is the author of the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and the short story collection Third Class Superhero.- Writing :...
- Tan Yun (Adet Lin)
- Laurence YepLaurence Yep-Background:Chinese-American, Yep was born in San Francisco, California to Yep Gim Lew and Franche. His older brother, Thomas named him after studying a particular saint in a multicultural neighborhood that consisted of mostly African Americans. Growing up, he often felt torn between both...
- Jim Yoshida
- Nasim YousafNasim YousafNasim Yousaf is a scholar, historian and intellectual. He comes from a famous family of the Indian sub-continent and is a grandson of the pre-eminent Allama Mashriqi . He is also a nephew of globally recognized social scientist Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan Nasim Yousaf is a scholar, historian and...
- Judy YungJudy YungJudy Yung is professor emerita in American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She specializes in oral history, women's history, and Chinese American and Asian American history.-Life:...
- Fareed ZakariaFareed ZakariaFareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist and author. From 2000 to 2010, he was a columnist for Newsweek and editor of Newsweek International. In 2010 he became Editor-At-Large of Time magazine...
- Helen ZiaHelen ZiaHelen Zia is an American journalist and scholar who has covered Asian American communities and social and political movements for decades.-Life and career:...
(謝漢蘭)
West Asian (Middle Eastern) writers
- Khalil GibranKhalil GibranKhalil Gibran Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān,Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān, or Jibrān Xalīl Jibrān; Arabic , January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) also known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer...
- Khaled HosseiniKhaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini , is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician of ethnic Tajik origin. He is a citizen of the United States where he has lived since he was fifteen years old. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, selling more than 12 million copies worldwide....
- New York Pen League
- Edward SaidEdward SaidEdward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism...
See also
- Asian American literatureAsian American literatureAlthough immigrants from Asia and Americans of Asian descent have been writing in the United States since the 19th century, Asian American literature as a category of writing only came into existence in the early 1970s...
- Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
- Before Columbus FoundationBefore Columbus FoundationThe Before Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed, Victor Hernández Cruz, Shawn Wong and Rudolfo Anaya to be "a multi-ethnic organizing dedicated to promoting a pan-cultural view of America," especially through the promotion of multicultural writers.One of...
- List of American writers of Korean descent
- Chinese American literatureChinese American literatureChinese American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Chinese descent. The genre began in the 19th century and flowered in the 20th with such authors as Sui Sin Far, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Amy Tan....
- Asian American Literary AwardsAsian American Literary AwardsThe Asian American Literary Awards are a set of annual awards that have been presented by The Asian American Writers' Workshop since 1998. The awards include a set of honors for excellence in fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by a panel of literary and academic judges; a Members' Choice Award,...
- Asian/Pacific American Awards for LiteratureAsian/Pacific American Awards for LiteratureThe Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature are a set of literary awards presented annually by the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association...