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Contents • • • • • • Biography [ ] Yep was born in to Yep Gim Lew (Thomas) and Franche. His older brother, Thomas, named him after studying a particular saint in a multicultural neighborhood that consisted of mostly. Growing up, he often felt torn between U.S. And Chinese, and expressed this in many of his books. A great deal of his work involves characters feeling alienated or not fitting into their surroundings and environment, something Yep has struggled with since childhood. Most of his life, he has had the feeling of being out of place, whether because he is the non athlete in his athletic family or because he is Chinese and once lived in Chinatown but does not speak the language.

As it says in his autobiography, 'I was too American to fit into, and too Chinese to fit in anywhere else.' As a boy, Yep attended a bilingual school in. He later entered in San Francisco where he continued his interest in chemistry and became equally intrigued with writing. His first writing was done in, for a.

His teacher, a, 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 a career in writing was meant to be. Yep attended and graduated from the. He earned a in at the. While working in his family's store, he 'learned early on how to observe and listen to people, how to relate to others.

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It was good training for a writer.' However, as a child, he thought of himself as a scientist and expected to become a chemist. 'Like my father, I was fascinated by machines.' His decision to become a writer did not come until he entered college at Marquette. At Marquette, he met and became friends with the literary magazine editor, Joanne Ryder.

She introduced him to children's literature and later asked him to write a book for children while she was working. The result was his first science fiction novel, Sweetwater, published by Harper & Row in 1973. According to Yep, his relationship with Joanne began as friends and progressed into love (Yep, 1991). Yep and Ryder are married and live in. Writer [ ] Laurence Yep's most notable collection of works is the Golden Mountain Chronicles, documenting the fictional Young family from 1849 in China to 1995 in America. Two of the series are Newbery Honor Books, or runners-up for the annual: ( Harper & Row, 1975) and Dragon's Gate (HarperCollins, 1993). Dragonwings won the from the in 1995, recognizing the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award.

It has been under its original title. Another of the Chronicles, Child of the Owl won the for children's fiction in 1977.

( The Rainbow People, Yep's collection of short stories based on Chinese folktales and legends, was a Horn Book runner-up in 1989.) [ ] Yep wrote two other notable series, Chinatown Mysteries and (1982 to 1992). The latter is an adaptation of Chinese mythology as four fantasy novels. In 2005 the professional children's librarians awarded Yep the biennial, which recognizes a living author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made 'a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children'. The committee noted that 'Yep explores the dilemma of the cultural outsider' with 'attention to the complexity and conflict within and across cultures' and it cited four works in particular: Dragonwings, The Rainbow People, The Khan's Daughter, and the autobiographical The Lost Garden. A live-action/CGI TV movie of The Tiger's Apprentice, adapted by writer, is currently being developed. Works [ ] Golden Mountain Chronicles As of 2011 there are ten published chronicles spanning 1835 to the present. Here they are ordered by the fictional history and the year of the narrative follows the title; none of the titles includes a date.