About Laurence Yep
Laurence Yep grew up in San Francisco, where he was born. He attended Marquette University, was graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Mr. Yep now lives in Pacific Grove, California.
One of children's literature's most respected Asian American authors, Mr. Yep has written many novels, including Dragonwings, a Newbery Honor Book of 1976, and Dragon's Gate, a Newbery Honor Book of 1994. He is also the author of When the Circus Came to Town; The Imp That Ate My Homework, winner of the Georgia Children's Book Award; and The Magic Paintbrush.
The author of numerous other books for children and young adults, Mr. Yep has also taught creative writing and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara. In 1990 he received an NEA fellowship in fiction.
Laurence Michael Yep; born June 14 1948) is a prolific, award-winning Chinese-American modern author., he was the youngest child of his family. Growing up, he often felt torn between both American and Chinese culture, and expressed this in many of his books. As it says in his autobiography, "I was too American to fit into Chinatown, and too Chinese to fit in anywhere else." His first writing was done in high school, for a science fiction magazine. His teacher, a priest, told him and a couple of his friends that to get an A, they had to get a piece of writing accepted by a magazine, and that's when he started to realize that writing was meant to be for him.
Yep attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He earned a PhD in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo.[1]
The most notable of his books is a series called the Golden Mountain Chronicles, which documents the story of the fictional Young family from 1849, in China, to 1995, in America. He received the Newbery Honor for two books in the series, Dragon's Gate and Dragon wings. The latter has been adapted into a play. Other notable books are the Dragon series and The Chinatown Mysteries. He was awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 2005 for his contributions to children's literature.
Yep is married to fellow author Joanne Ryder and lives in Pacific Grove, California.
Golden Mountain Chronicles, in chronological order (parentheses indicate the year in which the story is set)
1. The Serpent's Children (1849)
2. Mountain Light (1855)
3. Dragon's Gate (1867) (Newbery Honor)
4. The Traitor (1885)
5. Dragon wings (1903)
6. The Red Warrior (1939) (yet to be released)
7. Child of the Owl (1960)
8. Sea Glass (1970)
9. Thief of Hearts (1995)
Later, Gator (untitled group of books)
1. Later, Gator
2. Cockroach Cooties
3. Skunk Scout
Picture Books
1. The Magic Paintbrush
2. The Dragon Prince: A Chinese Beauty and the Beast Tale
3. The Butterfly Boy
4. The Shell Woman and the King: a Chinese folktale
5. The Khan's Daughter: a Mongolian folktale
6. When the Circus Came to Town
7. The Ghost Fox
8. The Boy Who Swallowed Snakes
9. The Man who Tricked a Ghost
Other books
1. Tongues of Jade
2. The Rainbow People
3. Sweetwater
4. The Star Fisher
5. Dream Soul (sequel to The Star Fisher)
6. Hiroshima: A Novella
7. The Earth Dragon Awakes: the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
8. Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Warrior of the South (part of The Royal Diaries series)
9. The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung: A Chinese Miner (part of the I Am America series)
10. Spring Pearl: The Last Flower (part of the Girls of Many Lands series)
11. The Imp that Ate My Homework
12. Kind Hearts and Gentle Monsters
13. The Mark Twain Murders
14. The Tom Sawyer Fires
15. Shadow Lord (a Star Trek novel)
16. Mia
17. Bravo, Mia!
Plays
1. The Age of Wonders
2. Dragon wings
3. Pay the Chinaman (one-act)
4. Fairy Bones (one-act)
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