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Laurence Yep

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Name: Laurence Yep
Birth Date: June 14, 1948
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Asian American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Laurence Yep
3,640 words, approx. 12 pages
Born June 14, 1948 in San Francisco, California. "In our family's own personal story West Virginia is as much a mythical homeland as China, for my mother was born in Ohio and then raised in West Virginia, where my paternal grandfather started a Chinese...
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Biography of Laurence Michael Yep
3,445 words, approx. 12 pages
Because he was raised in a black ghetto and attended a grammar school in San Francisco's Chinatown, Laurence Yep has firsthand knowledge of cultural alienation and racial conflict. A third generation Chinese-American, Yep is a short story writer, a...
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Biography of Laurence Yep
3,132 words, approx. 10 pages
The author of such award-winning novels as Dragonwings, Child of the Owl, and Dragon Steel, novelist and playwright Laurence Yep is noted for penning fiction that brings the history and culture of Chinese Americans into realistic view, exchanging the...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Laurence Yep Information
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Laurence Michael Yep (Chinese: 葉祥添; pinyin: Yè Xiángtiān; born June 14, 1948) is a prolific, award-winning Chinese-American modern author. Born in San Francisco, California, he was the youngest child of his family. Growing up, he often felt...


News and Journals
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Publishers Weekly
In the studio with Laurence Yep. (children's book author)
05/16/1994: 1,538 words, approx. 5 pages
Although San Francisco is known as one of the nation's most ethnically diverse and tolerant cities, its citizens nonetheless faced many of the same pressures of assimilation as other Americans. For Laurence Yep, an Asian American whose Dragon's Gate recently received a 1994 Newbery...
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Kliatt
Yep, Laurence. The traitor.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
01/01/2005: 347 words, approx. 1 pages
YEP, Laurence. The traitor. (Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1885.) HarperTrophy. 310p. c2003.0-06-000831-8. $6.99. J To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, March 2003: Yep has continued here with the story of many generations of a Chinese immigrant family, the Young family....
 


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