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Gail Tsukiyama
Gail Tsukiyama is an American novelist from San Francisco, California, USA. Early life Tsukiyama was born in San Francisco, to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother. She attended San Francisco State University, where she received both her Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Master of Arts Degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing. Career Tsukiyama works as a part-time lecturer for San Francisco State University and a freelance book-reviewer for the ''San Francisco Chronicle''. Tsukiyama is an alumna of the Ragdale Foundation. She lives in El Cerrito, California. Works Tsukiyama was one of nine fiction authors to appear during the first Library of Congress National Book Festival. Her works include '' Women of the Silk'' (1991), '' The Samurai’s Garden'' (1995), '' Night of Many Dreams'' (1998), '' The Language of Threads'' (1999), '' Dreaming Water'' (2002), '' The Street of a Thousand Blossoms'' (2007), ''A Hundred Flowers The Hundred Flowers Campaign, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and ''Baghdad by the Bay''. San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area are a global center of economic activity and the arts and sciences, spurred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
