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Darrell H.Y. Lum
Darrell H.Y. Lum (born 1950) is a fiction writer, playwright, teacher, and editor from Hawaii, Hawaiʻi, who co-founded Bamboo Ridge, Bamboo Ridge Press with Eric Chock. Early life and education Lum was born in 1950 in Honolulu. Lum attended McKinley High School (Honolulu, Hawaii), McKinley High School, and later the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he earned his bachelor's in 1972, followed by an M.A. in Educational Communications in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Educational Foundations in 1997. Lum is known for his writings in Hawaiian Creole English, Hawaiʻi Creole English, or Hawaiian Pidgin. Career In 1991, Lum received the Elliot Cades Award for Literature. Prior to that, he received a fellowship in literature from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989. Lum's ''Pass On, No Pass Back!'' earned the Association for Asian American Studies National Book Award in 1992. Darrell H.Y. Lum was also awarded the 1998 Hawaiʻi Book Publishers' Association Award for Excellence in Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state geographically located within the tropics. Hawaii comprises nearly the entire Hawaiian archipelago, 137 volcanic islands spanning that are physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania. The state's ocean coastline is consequently the fourth-longest in the U.S., at about . The eight main islands, from northwest to southeast, are Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lānai, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii—the last of these, after which the state is named, is often called the "Big Island" or "Hawaii Island" to avoid confusion with the state or archipelago. The uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands make up most of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, the United States' largest protected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
