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 l...

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 novel...

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 exa...

A community of Pacific islanders made their dreams come true in this rural Missouri town, far from the sandy atolls and turquoise lagoons they call home.Authorities say those dreams were threatened by one of the Micronesian community's own, when a man entered a Micronesian church...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 11-17:Nov. 11: Comedian Jonathan Winters is 82. Jazz singer-pianist Mose Allison is 80. Country singer Narvel Felts is 69. Guitarist Vince Martell of Vanilla Fudge is 62. Singer-keyboardist Paul Cowsill of the Cowsills is 55. Singer Marshall Crenshaw...

Steve Carell is at his funniest when he's placed in painfully awkward situations _ having his chest waxed in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," for example, or being transformed into a babbling buffoon in "Bruce Almighty." There's a slightly nerdy sweetness about him that makes you root...

One Hollywood writer throws punches at the gym to vent artistic frustration while a labor strike keeps him from working.Another jams with his rock band and scouts the picket lines for a potential bride. A third devoted his energy to running the New York City...