List of Asian-American writers
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
- Emigdio Enrique Alvarez[2]
- Peter Bacho, American Book Award winner for 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
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
- May-Lee Chai, novelist
- 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
- 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]
- Susan Choi
- Deepak Chopra
- Louis Chu (雷霆超), author of Eat a Bowl of Tea (novel) (1961)
- 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
- George Estrada
- Kent Evans
- 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
- Zulfikar Ghose
- Prince Gomolvilas
- Nestor Vicente M. Gonzalez[2]
- Philip Kan Gotanda
- Vince Gotera
- Han Suyin (韩素音)
- Jessica Hagedorn
- 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
- 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[2]
- Ed Bok Lee
- Gus Lee (李健孫)
- Helie Lee
- Li-Young Lee
- Virginia Lee[2]
- Wendy Lee
- Carol Lem[2]
- Monfoon Leong[2]
- Amazin Lethi, Health & Fitness Author [5]
- Russell Leong
- Janet Lim[2]
- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
- Adet and Anor Lin[2]
- Alice Lin[2]
- Ed Lin
- Grace Lin
- Hazel Ai Chun Lin[2]
- Amy Ling[2]
- Lin Tai-yi[2]
- Lin Yutang[2]
- Linh Dinh
- Eric Liu
- Stephen Liu[2]
- Teresa Lo, Novelist and Screenwriter
- Vyvyane Loh
- 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
- P. C. Morantte
- Toshio Mori
- Bharati Mukherjee
- Milton Murayama
- Tahira Naqvi
- 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]
- 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 [1], author of Guilt Payment (1983) and Moonbay: Short Stories (1999)
- Therese Park
- Andrew X. Pham
- Aimee Phan
- Lee Yan Phou[2]
- A.K. Ramanujan
- Bino Realuyo
- Rishi Reddi
- Barbara Jane Reyes
- Patsy Sumi Saiki[2]
- Bienvenido Santos
- Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo
- Allen Say
- T. K. Seung, philosopher
- Sun Yung Shin, poet
- Jon Shirota[2]
- 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]
- Timothy Tau
- Eleanor Wong Telemaque[2]
- Tim Toyama, playwright
- Barbara Tran
- Tran Van Dinh[2]
- Monique Truong
- H.T. Tsiang, novelist of the 1930s, And China Has Hands (1937), etc.
- Kitty Tsui[2]
- Gail Tsukiyama
- Yoshiko Uchida
- Loung Ung*Jose Garcia Villa[2]
- 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
- Su-ling Wong[2]
- Merle Woo
- Sung J. Woo
- K.C. Wu[2]
- Fan Wu (吴帆)
- Mitsuye Yamada
- Hisaye Yamamoto
- Lois-Ann Yamanaka
- Wakako Yamauchi
- 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)
West Asian writers
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- ^ 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
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- ^ 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.
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