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Laurence Yep

His Biography:

I was born in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1948, but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school. Approaching that culture as an outsider, I have been fascinated by all its aspects – from its great novels to its children’s literature, comic art, and science fiction. Thus, I am able to pursue the figure of the “stranger” both in my studies and my writing.

While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction. At 18, my first short story was published – I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write and five years later I published my first novel, Sweetwater.

In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1970. I received my doctorate in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where I wrote my dissertation on William Faulkner’s early novels. I now live in San

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Laurence Yep

Author Laurence Michael Yep has written more than 50 works of fiction, mostly for young readers. Yep grew up in San Francisco, where he was born June 14, 1948, but has roots in West Virginia. During the Depression, Yep's maternal relatives moved from China to Ohio and then to Clarksburg, before settling in California.

Growing up hearing about his family's life in West Virginia, Yep based two of his books on those stories. The award-winning novel The Star Fisher, which was published in 1991, is an account of a Chinese-American family that moves to Clarksburg to open a laundry. For the book's portrayal of life in West Virginia, Yep received the West Virginia Library Association's 1995 Literary Merit Award. Dream Soul, a sequel, was published in 2000. Yep's autobiography, The Lost Garden, includes a section about his West Virginia connection.

Yep attended Marquette University for two years, earned a bachelor's degree at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and received a Ph.D. from State University of New York at Buffalo. He has taught creative writing

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Laurence Yep

Laurence Yep grew up in an African-American neighborhood in San Francisco in the 1950s. His father worked long hours in their corner grocery store, often with the help of Laurence and his brother. Laurence bussed to a bilingual Jesuit school in Chinatown, even though his family did not speak Chinese at home. Growing up, Yep always felt that he was a cultural outsider- a theme and perspective that would appear throughout his books.

Laurence Yep’s writing career started early. At age 18 he published his first story in a science fiction magazine. At age 23 he published his first novel. While his college classmates were going to parties and lying out in the sun, Laurence Yep was either typing in his room or doing research in the library. By age 28, Yep had not only written a long Ph.D. dissertation on William Faulkner, he had also won a prestigious Newbery Honor Award. That award impacted the course of his career, allowing him to quit his itinerant teaching jobs to focus on writing.

As a testament to his popularity and longevity as a writer, Laurence Yep won a