List of Asian-American writers
Appearance
In the fields of ethnic studies and literary scholarship, the term Asian American is a bit vague. In practice, it usually includes writers from East Asia and South Asia, but not from West Asia. At the same time, it often includes Asian Canadian writers, such as Joy Kogawa[1][2] and Michael Ondaatje.[3] Occasionally, it refers to Asian authors who have written about their experiences in the Americas. Technically, it could include hispanophone Asian authors as well.
Asian U.S. writers
A-D
- Ai[2]
- Meena Alexander
- Noel Alumit
- Ryka Aoki
- Anchee Min
- Peter Bacho, American Book Award winner for the novel Cebu
- Cathy Bao Bean (包圭漪)
- Bette Bao Lord (包柏漪)
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (白萱华), poet [2]
- Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
- Carlos Bulosan
- Lan Cao
- Celso Al Carunungan[2]
- Linda Ty Casper
- Gilbert Luis R. Centina III
- Steph Cha
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
- Jeffery Paul Chan (陈耀光)
- Diana Chang, novelist
- Daniyal Mueenuddin, author
- Eileen Chang (张爱玲)
- Hsin-hai Chang[2]
- Iris Chang (張純如)
- Leonard Chang
- Alexander Chee
- Justina Chen
- Su Hua Ling Chen (凌叔华)[2]
- Yuan-tsung Chen[2]
- Nien Cheng (郑念)[2]
- Anna Chennault (陈香梅)[2]
- King-Kok Cheung
- Cheng Sait Chia[2]
- Fay Chiang[2]
- Monlin Chiang (蒋梦麟)[2]
- Ted Chiang, Hugo and Nebula Award winner
- Frank Chin (趙健秀)
- Marilyn Chin (陈美玲)
- Mei Chin
- Frank Ching[2]
- Tony Chiu[2]
- Kah Kyung Cho, philosopher
- Eric Chock[2]
- Khendum Choden
- Susan Choi
- Deepak Chopra
- Louis Chu (雷霆超), author of Eat a Bowl of Tea (1961)
- Wesley Chu (朱恆昱), science fiction writer
- Chuang Hua[2]
- Philip W. Chung, playwright
- Dinesh D'Souza, conservative journalist
- Tony D'Souza
- Margaret Dilloway, author of How To Be An American Housewife (2010)
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
E-J
- Fan Wu (吴帆)
- Nancy Yi Fan (范禕)
- Sui Sin Far (水仙花), a.k.a. Edith Maude Eaton
- Ben Fee (张恨棠/木云)
- Eugie Foster, Nebula Award winner
- Luis Francia[2]
- June Fujita[2]
- Francis Fukuyama
- V.V. Ganeshananthan
- Tess Gerritsen
- Zulfikar Ghose
- Prince Gomolvilas
- Nestor Vicente M. Gonzalez[2]
- Philip Kan Gotanda
- Vince Gotera
- Han Suyin (韩素音)
- Jessica Hagedorn
- Kimiko Hahn
- Haing Ngor[2]
- Margaret N. Harada[2]
- Sadakichi Hartmann[2]
- Alamgir Hashmi
- Reiko Hatsumi[2]
- S. I. Hayakawa
- Le Ly Hayslip
- Joseph Heco
- Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award winner[4]
- Tess Uriza Holthe
- Garrett Hongo
- Bill Hosokawa
- Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston[2]
- TC Huo
- Eddie Huang
- David Henry Hwang (黃哲倫), playwright
- Patricia Ikeda[2]
- Lawson Fusao Inada
- Daniel K. Inouye[2]
- Shizue Ishimoto[2]
- Steven Javellana[2]
- Gish Jen
- Ha Jin (哈金)
- Jeanne Joe[2]
K-L
- Cynthia Kadohata
- Hizakazu Kaneko[2]
- Michiko Kakutani
- Michael Kang
- Minsoo Kang, historian and writer
- Younghill Kang, novelist
- Hiroshi Kashiwagi, poet, playwright, novelist
- Soji Kashiwagi, playwright
- Nora Okja Keller, author of Comfort Woman (1997) and Fox Girl (2002)
- Charles Kikuchi[2]
- Akemi Kikumura[2]
- Elaine H. Kim, author of Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context
- Jaegwon Kim, philosopher
- Patti Kim
- Richard E. Kim, novelist
- Ronyoung Kim
- Young Ik Kim[2]
- Maxine Hong Kingston, novelist
- Dorinne K. Kondo
- Geraldine Kudaka[2]
- Alexander Kuo[2]
- Helena Kuo[2]
- Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation (2010)
- Dan Kwong
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Him Mark Lai
- Andrew Lam
- Alan Chong Lau[2]
- Wendy Law-Yone[2]
- Le Thi Diem Thuy
- Ang Lee
- Chang-Rae Lee
- Chin Yang Lee (黎錦揚)
- Ed Bok Lee
- Gus Lee (李健孫)
- Helie Lee
- Li-Young Lee
- Virginia Lee[2]
- Yan Phou Lee (李恩富),[2][5] author of When I Was a Boy in China (1887) and The Chinese Must Stay (1889)
- Carol Lem[2]
- Monfoon Leong[2]
- Russell Leong
- Janet Lim[2]
- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
- Adet and Anor Lin[2]
- Alice Lin[2]
- Ed Lin
- Grace Lin
- Tan Lin
- Tao Lin
- Hazel Ai Chun Lin[2]
- Amy Ling[2]
- Lin Tai-yi[2]
- Lin Yutang[2]
- Linh Dinh
- Eric Liu
- Ken Liu (刘宇昆), Hugo and Nebula Award winner
- Marjorie Liu
- Stephen Liu[2]
- Malinda Lo
- Teresa Lo, novelist and screenwriter
- Vyvyane Loh
- Marie Lu
- David Wong Louie
- Pardee Lowe[2]
M-S
- Adeline Yen Mah (馬嚴君玲)
- Michelle Malkin, conservative newspaper columnist
- Haru Matsui (Ayako Ishigaki)[2]
- Ruthanne Lum McCunn[2]
- Sumie Seo Michina[2]
- Janice Mirikatani[2]
- Kazuo Miyamoto[2]
- Kristina McMorris
- Mong-Lan
- Toshio Mori
- Bharati Mukherjee
- Milton Murayama
- Ken Narasaki, playwright
- Il-Han New[2]
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Fae Myenne Ng
- Tran Thi Nga and Wendy Larson[2]
- Kien Nguyen
- Qui Nguyen
- Nguyen Qui Duc
- Barbara Noda[2]
- Yone Noguchi
- Sigrid Nunez
- Francis Naohiko Oka[2]
- John Okada
- Gary Okihiro
- Daniel Okimoto[2]
- Miné Okubo[2]
- Shelley Ayame Nishimura Ota[2]
- Ruth Ozeki
- Induk Pahk[2]
- Pai Hsien-yung, Chinese Muslim writer
- Gary Pak, author of Children of a Fireland: A Novel (2004) and Language of the Geckos and Other Stories (2005)
- Ty Pak, author of Guilt Payment (1983) and Moonbay: Short Stories (1999)
- Therese Park
- Andrew X. Pham
- Aimee Phan
- Jon Pineda
- Ramesh Ponnuru
- A.K. Ramanujan
- Bino Realuyo
- Rishi Reddi
- Nina Revoyr
- Barbara Jane Reyes
- Bruce Reyes-Chow
- Shawna Yang Ryan
- Albert Saijo[6]
- Patsy Sumi Saiki[2]
- Bienvenido Santos
- Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo
- Allen Say
- Lisa See, novelist
- T. K. Seung, philosopher
- Sun Yung Shin, poet
- Jon Shirota[2]
- SJ Sindu, novelist
- Linda Ching Sledge[2]
- Monica Sone, autobiographer
- Cathy Song
- Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto[2]
- Arthur Sze[2]
- Mai-Mai Sze[2]
T-Z
- Eileen Tabios
- Ronald Takaki, UC Berkeley history professor
- Shizuye Takashima[2]
- Kathleen Tamagawa[2]
- Amy Tan, novelist
- Ronald Tanaka[2]
- Hanama Tasaki[2]
- Lysley Tenorio
- Timothy Tau
- Eleanor Wong Telemaque[2]
- Tim Toyama, playwright
- Barbara Tran
- Tran Van Dinh[2]
- Monique Truong
- Kitty Tsui[2]
- Gail Tsukiyama
- Yoshiko Uchida
- Loung Ung
- Jose Garcia Villa[2]
- Saymoukda Vongsay
- Raees Warsi
- David Rafael Wang[2]
- Onoto Watanna, a.k.a. Winnifred Eaton
- Katherine Wei[2]
- Yung Wing[2]
- Jade Snow Wong
- May Wong[2]
- Nellie Wong
- Raymond K. Wong
- Shawn Wong
- Su-ling Wong[2]
- Merle Woo
- Sung J. Woo
- Bryan Thao Worra
- K.C. Wu[2]
- Fan Wu (吴帆)
- William F. Wu
- Mitsuye Yamada
- Hisaye Yamamoto
- Lois-Ann Yamanaka
- Wakako Yamauchi
- Jeff Yang
- John Yau[2]
- Chiang Yee[2]
- Lisa Yee
- Chun-chan Yeh[2]
- Liang Yen[2]
- Charles Yu
- Tan Yun (Adet Lin)[2]
- Laurence Yep
- Jim Yoshida[2]
- Judy Yung
- Fareed Zakaria
- Helen Zia (謝漢蘭)
Asian Canadian writers
West Asian writers
See also: List of Jewish American writers, List of Arab American writers
South Asian U.S. writers
See also
- Asian American literature
- Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
- Before Columbus Foundation
- List of American writers of Korean descent
- Chinese American literature
- Asian American Literary Awards
- Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
- Raees Warsi Urdu Poet, Journalist
External links
References
- ^ see, for example, Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong's statement, "The practice of including Kogawa in the Asian American roster is standard in the field," in her book Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance, p. 16. The same practice is found in Lisa Lowe's Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics; King-Kok Cheung's Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa (see page xv, in which she explains why she defines "American" as "North American", as does Helena Grice in Negotiating Identities: An Introduction to Asian American Women's Writing); Stan Yogi's essay on Japanese American Literature and Donald Goellnicht's essay "Asian American Literature as Theory," both in Cheung's reference work An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature; Sheng-Mei Ma's The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity; Emmanuel S. Nelson's reference book Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook; Stephen Sumida's article East of California: Points of Origin in Asian American Studies; and Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling's collection of critical essays, Reading the Literatures of Asian America
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl listed in Amy Ling's bibliography, "Asian American Literature," in Redefining American Literary History, A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, eds., MLA, 1990.
- ^ For instance, Emmanuel S. Nelson includes a chapter on Ondaatje in his Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook,.
- ^ "'Departed', 'Wire' in at Poe awards". Variety. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
- ^ "Lee, Yan Phou in library catalogs". Worlcat.
- ^ Gray, Timothy C. (Winter 1998). "Semiotic Shepherds: Gary Snyder, Frank O'Hara, and the Embodiment of an Urban Pastoral". Contemporary Literature. 39 (4). Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press: 541. ISSN 0010-7484. JSTOR 1208725.