She also graduated from the university, and when Hwang and his two younger sisters, Margery and Grace, were older, she became a piano instructor. Henry Hwang became a Certified Public Accountant and successful businessman, owning his own accounting firm, managing an Asian restaurant, and eventually founding and running a bank. Because one of Hwang's maternal ancestors had become a Christian, Hwang told Gerard Raymond in a 1997 profile, "My personal family history was an odd mix of fundamentalist Christianity and Chinese culture." Hwang attended the exclusive Harvard Boys School, graduating in 1975. He earned a degree in English from Stanford University in 1979 and has done graduate work in playwriting at Yale University.
Stanford was a pivotal experience for Hwang in many ways. Hwang explained to interviewer Marty Moss-Coane that he and his sisters
were raised pretty much as white European Americans in terms of the things we celebrated. There's an odd confluence in my family between a father who decided to turn away from things Chinese and a mother whose family had been converted to Christianity in China several generations back. Consequently between the two of them there was no particular desire for us to speak Chinese or celebrate Chinese holidays at all.
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