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This is a list of Asian American writers, authors, and poets who have Wikipedia pages. Their works are considered part of Asian American literature.


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* Ai * Shaila Abdullah * Aria Aber * George Abraham *
Jessica Abughattas Jessica Abughattas is an American poet. Her debut poetry collection, ''Strip'', was the winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize and was published by University of Arkansas Press. Abughattas is of Palestinian heritage and was born and raised in Cali ...
* Dilruba Ahmed, poet * Maya Ajmera *
Meena Alexander Meena Alexander (17 February 1951 – 21 November 2018) was an Indian American poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander later lived and worked in New York City, where she was a Distinguished P ...
* Agha Shahid Ali * Kazim Ali * Noel Alumit * Mia Alvar * Hala Alyan * Ryka Aoki * Fatimah Asghar *
Aziz Ansari Aziz Ismail Ansari (; born February 23, 1983) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is known for his role as Tom Haverford on the NBC series ''Parks and Recreation'' (2009–2015) and as creator and star of the Netflix series ''Maste ...
* Gina Apostol *
Gaiutra Bahadur Gaiutra Bahadur is a Guyanese-American writer. She is best known for '' Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture,'' which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2014. Early life Bahadur was born in New Amsterdam, East Berbice-Corentyne in rural G ...
* Shauna Singh Baldwin * Peter Bacho,
American Book Award The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "the ...
winner for the novel ''
Cebu Cebu (; ceb, Sugbo), officially the Province of Cebu ( ceb, Lalawigan sa Sugbo; tl, Lalawigan ng Cebu; hil, Kapuroan sang Sugbo), is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region, and consists of a main island and 167 ...
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Ravi Batra Raveendra Nath "Ravi" Batra (born June 27, 1943) is an Indian-American economist, author, and professor at Southern Methodist University. Batra is the author of six bestselling books, two of which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, ...
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Cathy Bao Bean Cathy Bao Bean () is a Chinese-American writer and educator, and is the author of ''The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual'' (We Press, 2002). She lives in Frelinghuysen Township, New Jersey, with her husband, artist Bennett Bean. '' ...
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Susham Bedi Susham Bedi (1 July 1945 – 20 March 2020) was an Indian author of novels, short stories and poetry. She was a professor of Hindi language and literature at the department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) at Colum ...
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Bette Bao Lord Bette Bao Lord (Chinese: 包柏漪, Pinyin: Bāo Bóyì; born November 3, 1938) is a Chinese-born American writer and civic activist for human rights and democracy. Early life Lord was born as Bette Bao in Shanghai, China. With her mother and fat ...
(包柏漪) * Rick Barot *
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (; born October 5, 1947, in Beijing, China) is a contemporary poet. Winner of two American Book Awards, her work is often associated with the Language School, the poetry of the New York School, phenomenology, and visual art ...
(白萱华), poet 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. * Cecilia Manguerra Brainard * Sujata Bhatt * Jaswinder Bolina *
Jenny Boully Jenny Boully (born 1976) is an author and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowships award in 2020 for general nonfiction. She is the author of ''The Book of Beginnings and Endings'' ( Sarabande Books, 2007), ''The Body: An Essay'' ( Slope Editions, 20 ...
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Carlos Bulosan Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (November 24, 1913 – September 11, 1956) was an English-language Filipino novelist and poet who immigrated to America on July 1, 1930. He never returned to the Philippines and he spent most of his life in the United S ...
* Regie Cabico * Lan Cao * Celso Al Carunungan * Linda Ty Casper *
Gilbert Luis R. Centina III Gilbert Luis Ramos Centina III (May 19, 1947 – May 1, 2020) was a Filipino-American award-winning Roman Catholic poet 1974 Palanca Awards who was the author of nine poetry books, two novels and a book of literary criticism. Respected for his po ...
* Steph Cha *
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Theresa Hak Kyung Cha ( ko, 차학경; March 4, 1951 – November 5, 1982) was an American novelist, producer, director, and artist of South Korean origin, best known for her 1982 novel, '' Dictee''. Considered an avant-garde artist, Cha ...
* Jeffery Paul Chan (陈耀光) * Rajiv Chandrasekaran *
Jay Chandrasekhar Jayanth Jambulingam Chandrasekhar (born April 9, 1968) is an American comedian, film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for his work with the sketch comedy group Broken Lizard and for directing and starring in the Broken Lizard ...
, screenwriter * Diana Chang (張粲芳), novelist *
Eileen Chang Eileen Chang ( zh, t=張愛玲, s=张爱玲, first=t, w=Chang1 Ai4-ling2, p=Zhāng Àilíng;September 30, 1920 – September 8, 1995), also known as Chang Ai-ling or Zhang Ailing, or by her pen name Liang Jing (梁京), was a Chinese-born Am ...
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Iris Chang Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, '' The Rape of Nanking'', an ...
(張純如) * Jennifer Chang * K-Ming Chang *
Lan Samantha Chang Lan Samantha Chang (張嵐; pinyin: Zhāng Lán) is an American writer of novels and short stories. Life Lan Samantha Chang was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, and attended Yale University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in East Asian ...
* Leonard Chang * Tina Chang * Lisa Changadveja * Bonnie Chau * Maneet Chauhan * Daniyal Mueenuddin, author * Cathy Linh Che *
Alexander Chee Alexander Chee (born August 21, 1967) is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer. Born in Rhode Island, he spent his childhood in South Korea, Kauai, Truk, Guam and Maine. He attended Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers' ...
* Anelise Chen * Justina Chen * Su Hua Ling Chen (凌叔华) *
Nien Cheng Nien Cheng or Zheng Nian (January 28, 1915 – November 2, 2009) is the pen name of Yao Nien-Yuan (). She was a Chinese author who recounted her harrowing experiences during the Cultural Revolution in her memoir '' Life and Death in Shangha ...
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Anna Chennault Anna Chennault, born Chan Sheng Mai, later spelled Chen Xiangmei (, actual birth year 1923, but reported as June 23, 1925 – March 30, 2018), also known as Anna Chan Chennault or Anna Chen Chennault, was a war correspondent and prominent Republ ...
(陈香梅) * King-Kok Cheung * Cheng Sait Chia * Fay Chiang * Monlin Chiang (蒋梦麟) *
Ted Chiang Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. His short story " Story of Your Life" was the basis of th ...
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Frank Chin Frank Chin (born February 25, 1940) is an American author and playwright. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of Asian-American theatre. Life and career Frank Chin was born in Berkeley, California on February 25, 1940; until the age of ...
(趙健秀) * Justin Chin * Marilyn Chin (陈美玲) * Mei Chin *
Staceyann Chin Staceyann Chin (born December 25, 1972) is a spoken-word poet, performing artist and LGBT rights political activist. Her work has been published in ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', and the ''Pittsburgh Daily'', and has been feat ...
* Frank Ching * Kah Kyung Cho, philosopher * Khendum Choden * Don Mee Choi * Susan Choi *
Roshani Chokshi Roshani Chokshi (born February 14, 1991) is an American children's book author and a New York Times bestselling author. Personal life Chokshi's mother is Filipino and her father is Indian, both immigrants to the United States. She grew up s ...
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Deepak Chopra Deepak Chopra (; ; born October 22, 1946) is an Indian-American author and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternati ...
* Louis Chu (雷霆超), author of '' Eat a Bowl of Tea'' (1961) *
Wesley Chu Wesley Chu (朱恆昱) (born September 23, 1976, in Taipei) is a #1 New York Times Bestselling speculative fiction author. He was originally raised by his grandparents in Taiwan while his parents were studying in the United States. In 1982, he ...
(朱恆昱), science fiction writer * Frances Chung * Philip W. Chung, playwright * Peter Ho Davies * Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla *
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, 1956) is an Indian-born American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, ''Arrang ...
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Dinesh D'Souza Dinesh Joseph D'Souza (; born April 25, 1961) is an Indian-American right-wing political commentator, author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist. He has written over a dozen books, several of them ''New York Times'' best-sellers. In 2012, D' ...
, conservative journalist * Tony D'Souza *
Bei Dao Bei Dao (, born August 2, 1949) is the pen name of the Chinese-American writer Zhao Zhenkai (S: 赵振开, T: 趙振開, P: ''Zhào Zhènkāi''). Among the most acclaimed Chinese-language poets of his generation, he is often regarded as a candida ...
* Oliver de la Paz * Margaret Dilloway, author of '' How To Be An American Housewife'' (2010) *
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, 1956) is an Indian-born American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, ''Arrang ...
* Do Nguyen Mai, poet


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* 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) * Jamie Ford *
Eugie Foster Eugie Foster (December 30, 1971 – September 27, 2014) was an American short story writer, columnist, and editor. Her stories were published in a number of magazines and book anthologies, including '' Fantasy Magazine'', '' Realms of Fantasy'', ...
, Nebula Award winner * Sesshu Foster *
Francis Fukuyama Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (; born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, international relations scholar and writer. Fukuyama is known for his book '' The End of History and the Last Man'' (1992), which argu ...
* M. Evelina Galang * Sarah Gambito * V.V. Ganeshananthan *
Anu Garg Anu Garg (born April 5, 1967) is an American author and speaker. He is also the founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community comprising word lovers from an estimated 195 countries. His books explore the joy of words. He has authored several book ...
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Atul Gawande Atul Atmaram Gawande (born November 5, 1965) is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Departmen ...
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Tess Gerritsen Tess Gerritsen (born Terry Tom; June 12, 1953) is the pseudonym of Terry Gerritsen, an American novelist and retired general physician. Early life Tess Gerritsen is the child of a Chinese immigrant and a Chinese-American seafood chef. While grow ...
* Alex Gilvarry *
Anchee Min Anchee Min (; born January 14, 1957, in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. Min has published two memoirs, '' Red Azalea'' and ''The Cooked Seed: A Memoir'', and six historical novels. Her fic ...
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Zulfikar Ghose Zulfikar Ghose (March 13, 1935 – June 30, 2022) was a Pakistani-American novelist, poet and essayist. His works are primarily magical realism, blending fantasy and harsh realism. Biography Born in Sialkot, Punjab, which was in British India be ...
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Khalil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran ( ar, جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان, , , or , ; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced ), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist ...
* Eugene Gloria *
Prince Gomolvilas Prince Gomolvilas (born August 28, 1972) is a Thai American playwright. He has written many plays which have been produced in the United States and won several distinctive awards, including a PEN Center USA West Literary Award for Drama. He was ...
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Philip Kan Gotanda Philip Kan Gotanda (born December 17, 1951) is an American playwright and filmmaker and a third generation Japanese American. Much of his work deals with Asian American issues and experiences. Biography Over the last three decades Gotanda ha ...
* Vince Gotera *
Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956)Ghosh, Amitav
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Han Suyin Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou (; 12 September 1917 or 1916 – 2 November 2012) was a Chinese-born Eurasian physician and author better known by her pen name Han Suyin (). She wrote in English and French on modern China, set her novels in East an ...
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Jessica Hagedorn Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn (born 1949) is an American playwright, writer, poet, and multimedia performance artist. Biography Hagedorn is an American of mixed descent. She was born in Manila to a Scots-Irish-French-Filipino mother and a Spanish Fi ...
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Kimiko Hahn Kimiko Hahn (born July 5, 1955) is an American poet and distinguished professor in the MFA program of Queens College, CUNY. Her works frequently deal with the reinvention of poetic forms and the intersecting of conflicting identities. Biograph ...
* Sarah Haider *
Usha Haley Usha C. V. Haley is an American author and academic, currently W. Frank Barton Distinguished Chair of International Business and Professor of Management at the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University in the U.S. state of Kans ...
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Mohsin Hamid Mohsin Hamid ( ur, محسن حامد; born 23 July 1971) is a British Pakistani novelist, writer and brand consultant. His novels are '' Moth Smoke'' (2000), '' The Reluctant Fundamentalist'' (2007), '' How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia'' ( ...
* Jenny Han * Asma Gull Hasan *
Alamgir Hashmi Alamgir Hashmi (Urdu: عالمگیر ہاشمی), also known as Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi (born 15 November 1951), is an English poet of Pakistani origin. Considered avant-garde, his early and later works were published to considerable critical ...
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S. I. Hayakawa Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. A professor of English, he served as president of San Francisco State University and then as U.S. Senator fro ...
* Le Ly Hayslip *
Joseph Heco Joseph Heco (born September 20, 1837 – December 12, 1897) was the first Japanese person to be naturalized as a United States citizen and the first to publish a Japanese language newspaper. Early years Hikozō Hamada was born in Harima pr ...
* Tess Uriza Holthe *
Cathy Park Hong Cathy Park Hong (born August 7, 1976) is an American poet, writer, and professor who has published three volumes of poetry. Much of her work includes mixed language and serialized narrative. She was named on the 2021 Time 100 list for her writing ...
* Euny Hong, author * Garrett Hongo *
Bill Hosokawa William Kunpei Hosokawa (January 30, 1915 – November 9, 2007) was an American writer and journalist. Of Japanese descent, while interned at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, he was the editor of the internment camp's newspaper, ''The ...
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Khaled Hosseini Khaled Hosseini (;Pashto/Dari ; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician. His debut novel '' The Kite Runner'' (2003) was a critical and commercial success; the book and his subsequen ...
* Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston * TC Huo *
Eddie Huang Edwyn Charles Huang (born March 1, 1982) is an American author, chef, restaurateur, food personality, producer, and former attorney. He was a co-owner of BaoHaus, a gua bao restaurant in the East Village of Lower Manhattan. Huang previously ...
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David Henry Hwang David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays '' FOB'', '' Golden Child'', and '' Yellow ...
(黃哲倫), playwright * Lawson Fusao Inada * Daniel K. Inouye *
Pico Iyer Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer (born 11 February 1957), known as Pico Iyer, is a British-born essayist and novelist known chiefly for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including ''Video Night in Kathmandu ...
* Tania James *
Gish Jen Gish Jen (born Lillian Jen; () August 12, 1955) is a contemporary American writer and speaker.Matsukawa, Yuko"MELUS interview: Gish Jen" ''MELUS'', Vol. 18, 1993 Early life and education Gish Jen is a second-generation Chinese American. Her pa ...
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Ha Jin Jin Xuefei (; born February 21, 1956) is a Chinese-American poet and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin (). ''Ha'' comes from his favorite city, Harbin. His poetry is associated with the Misty Poetry movement. Early life Ha Jin was born in ...
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Cynthia Kadohata Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2, 1956) is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel ''Kira-Kira'' which won the Newbery Medal in 2005. She won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2013 for ''The ...
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Michiko Kakutani Michiko Kakutani (born January 9, 1955) is an American writer and retired literary critic, best known for reviewing books for ''The New York Times'' from 1983 to 2017. In that role, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1998. Early life ...
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Mindy Kaling Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979),Additional archive on June 25, 2015. known professionally as Mindy Kaling (), is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter and producer. She first gained recognition starring as Kelly Kapoor in the ...
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Jay Caspian Kang Jay Caspian Kang is an American writer, editor, television journalist and podcast host. He is a staff writer at the ''New York Times Magazine'' and the opinion section of ''The New York Times''. Previously he was an editor of ''Grantland'', then ...
, journalist, novelist * Michael Kang * Minsoo Kang, historian and writer * Younghill Kang, novelist * Bhanu Kapil * Sheba Karim *
Hiroshi Kashiwagi Hiroshi Kashiwagi (November 8, 1922 – October 29, 2019) was a ''Nisei'' (second-generation Japanese American) poet, playwright and actor. For his writing and performance work on stage he is considered an early pioneer of Asian American theatr ...
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Soji Kashiwagi Soji Kashiwagi (born 1962 in Oakland, California) is a ''Sansei'' (third-generation Japanese American) journalist, playwright and producer. He is the Executive Producer for the Grateful Crane Ensemble theatre company in Los Angeles. He has cont ...
, playwright * Siddharth Katragadda * Nora Okja Keller, author of ''Comfort Woman'' (1997) and ''Fox Girl'' (2002) *
Porochista Khakpour Porochista Khakpour (Farsi: پوروچیستا خاکپور, born January 17, 1978) is an Iranian American novelist, essayist, and journalist. A refugee from Iran whose family fled the Iran-Iraq War and the Islamic Revolution, Khakpour grew up ...
* Uzma Aslam Khan *
Parag Khanna Parag Khanna (born 27 July 1977 in Kanpur) is an Indian American specialist in geopolitics and globalization. He is the managing partner of FutureMap, and former managing partner of Hybrid Reality as well as Co-Founder & CEO of Factotum. Early li ...
* Crystal Hana Kim * Elaine H. Kim, author of ''Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context'' *
Jaegwon Kim Jaegwon Kim (September 12, 1934 – November 27, 2019) was a Korean-American philosopher. At the time of his death, Kim was an emeritus professor of philosophy at Brown University. He also taught at several other leading American universities d ...
, philosopher * Myung Mi Kim * Patti Kim * Richard E. Kim, novelist *
Suki Kim Suki Kim is a Korean American journalist and writer. She is the author of two books: the award-winning novel ''The Interpreter'' and a book of investigative journalism, ''Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's E ...
, novelist * Ronyoung Kim *
Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston (; born Maxine Ting Ting Hong;Huntley, E. D. (2001). ''Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion'', p. 1. October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, wher ...
, novelist * Katie Kitamura * Bharti Kirchner * Alexandra Kleeman *
Lisa Ko Lisa Ko is an American writer. Her debut novel, '' The Leavers'', won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. She has written for the ''New York Times.''Ko, Lis ...
* Dorinne K. Kondo * Gowri Koneswaran *
R.F. Kuang Rebecca F. Kuang is a Chinese-American fantasy writer. Her first novel, ''The Poppy War'', was released in 2018, followed by the sequels ''The Dragon Republic'' in 2019 and ''The Burning God'' in 2020. Kuang released a stand-alone novel, '' Bab ...
* Helena Kuo *
Kevin Kwan Kevin Kwan (born ) is a Singapore-born American novelist and writer of satirical novels ''Crazy Rich Asians'', '' China Rich Girlfriend'', and '' Rich People Problems''. His latest book, '' Sex and Vanity'', was released in June 2020. In 2014, ...
, author * Jean Kwok, author of ''Girl in Translation'' (2010) * Dan Kwong *
Jhumpa Lahiri Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" LahiriMinzesheimer, Bob ''USA Today'', August 19, 2003. Retrieved on 2008-04-13. (born July 11, 1967) is an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italia ...
* Him Mark Lai * Andrew Lam * Le Thi Diem Thuy *
Ang Lee Ang Lee (; born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker. Born in Pingtung County of southern Taiwan, Lee was educated in Taiwan and later in the United States. During his filmmaking career, he has received international critical and popul ...
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Chang-Rae Lee Chang-rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. He was previously Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton and director of Princeton's Program in Creative Writing. Ea ...
* Chin Yang Lee (黎錦揚) * Don Lee * Ed Bok Lee * Gus Lee (李健孫) * Helie Lee * Karen An-hwei Lee * Krys Lee *
Li-Young Lee Li-Young Lee (李立揚, pinyin: Lǐ Lìyáng) (born August 19, 1957) is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His maternal great-grandfather was Yuan Shikai, China's first Republican President, who attempte ...
* Stacey Lee * Joseph O. Legaspi *
Russell Leong Russell Charles Leong (born 1950) is an academic editor, professor, writer, and long-time Chen-style t'ai chi ch'uan student. The long-time editor of Amerasia Journal (1977–2010), Leong was an adjunct professor of English and Asian-American Stud ...
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Yiyun Li Yiyun Li (born November 4, 1972) is a Chinese-born writer and professor in the United States. Her short stories and novels have won several awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award and Guardian First Book Award for ''A Thousand Years of Good Pr ...
* Sandra Lim * Shirley Geok-lin Lim *
Adet Adet (Amharic: አዴት) ,also known as Adet Medhanialem is a town in northwestern Ethiopia. Located south of Bahir Dar in the Mirab Gojjam Zone of the Amhara Region (or ''kilil''), this town has a latitude and longitude of with an altitude of ...
and Anor Lin * Ed Lin *
Grace Lin Grace Lin (born May 17, 1974) is a Taiwanese-American children's writer and illustrator. She is a Newbery, Geisel, and Caldecott honoree, known for contributing to and advocating for Asian-American representation and diversity in children’s lite ...
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Tan Lin Tan Anthony Lin is an American poet, author, filmmaker, and professor. He defines his work as “ambient" literature, which draws on and samples source material from the Internet and popular culture to address issues involving plagiarism, copyrigh ...
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Tao Lin Tao Lin (; born July 2, 1983) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. He has published four novels, a novella, two books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a memoir, as well as an extensive assortment of ...
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Lin Tai-yi Lin Tai-yi (; April 1, 1926 – July 2003) was a Chinese-American writer and translator. She was also known as Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang. The daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Beijing and came to the United States with her family when ...
* R. Zamora Linmark *
Linh Dinh Linh Dinh (Vietnamese: , born 1963 in poetry, 1963, Saigon, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese Americans, Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer, translator, and photographer. He was a 1993 Pew Fellowships in the Arts, Pew Fellow. He writes a column for ...
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Eric Liu Eric P. Liu (born 1968) is an American writer, former civil servant, and founder of Citizen University, a non-profit organization promoting civics education and awareness. Liu served as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Polic ...
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Ken Liu Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. His epic fantasy series ''The Dandelion Dynasty'', which he describes as silkpunk, is published by Simon & Schuster. Liu has won Hugo and Nebula Awards for his short fi ...
(刘宇昆), Hugo and Nebula Award winner *
Marjorie Liu Marjorie M. Liu is an American ''New York Times'' best-selling author and comic book writer. She is acclaimed for her horror fantasy comic '' Monstress'', and her paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels including ''The Hunter Kiss'' and ''Tig ...
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Timothy Liu Timothy Liu (born 1965 in San Jose, California) is an American poet and the author of such books as ''Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse'', ''For Dust Thou Art'', ''Of Thee I Sing'', ''Hard Evidence'', ''Say Goodnight'', ''Burnt Offeri ...
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Malinda Lo Malinda Lo is an American writer of young adult novels including '' Ash'', ''Huntress'', ''Adaptation'', ''Inheritance,'' ''A Line in the Dark'', and '' Last Night at the Telegraph Club''. She also does research on diversity in young adult litera ...
* Teresa Lo, novelist and screenwriter * Vyvyane Loh * Mimi Lok *
Bette Bao Lord Bette Bao Lord (Chinese: 包柏漪, Pinyin: Bāo Bóyì; born November 3, 1938) is a Chinese-born American writer and civic activist for human rights and democracy. Early life Lord was born as Bette Bao in Shanghai, China. With her mother and fat ...
* Marie Lu * David Wong Louie


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Ling Ma Ling Ma is a Chinese American novelist and assistant professor of practice in the Arts at the University of Chicago. Her first book, ''Severance (novel), Severance'', won a 2018 Kirkus Reviews, Kirkus Prize and was listed as a ''New York Times'' ...
* Adeline Yen Mah (馬嚴君玲) * Sezan Mahmud *
Michelle Malkin Michelle Malkin (; Maglalang; born October 20, 1970) is an American conservative political commentator. She was a Fox News contributor and in May 2020 joined Newsmax TV. Malkin has written seven books and founded the conservative websites Twi ...
, conservative newspaper columnist * Sally Wen Mao * Maliha Masood * Sujata Massey * Kristina McMorris * Mong-Lan * Tulika Mehrotra *
Hasan Minhaj Hasan Minhaj ( ; born September 23, 1985) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host of Indian descent. His Netflix show ''Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj'' won two Peabody Awards and two Webby Aw ...
* Mary Anne Mohanraj * Toshio Mori * Mai Neng Moua * Bharati Mukherjee *
David Mura David Mura (born 1952) is an American author, poet, novelist, playwright, critic and performance artist whose writings explore the themes of race, identity and history. In 2018, Mura has published a book on creative writing, ''A Stranger’s Jou ...
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Milton Murayama Milton Atsushi Murayama (April 10, 1923 – July 27, 2016) was an American novelist and playwright. A Nisei, he wrote the 1975 novel ''All I Asking for Is My Body'', which is considered a classic novel of the experiences of Japanese Americans ...
* Sabina Murray * An Na, novelist * Ken Narasaki, playwright *
Sunil Nayar Sunil Nayar is an Indian American television writer and producer, most notable for his work on '' CSI: Miami''. For its third season onward, Nayar has been appointed main-showrunner and executive producer of the ABC television series ''Revenge''. ...
, television writer * Aimee Nezhukumatathil *
Celeste Ng Celeste Ng ( ) (born July 30, 1980) is an American writer and novelist. She has released many short stories that have been published in a variety of literary journals. Ng's first novel, '' Everything I Never Told You'', released on June 26, 20 ...
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Fae Myenne Ng Fae Myenne Ng (born December 2, 1956 in San Francisco) is an American novelist, and short story writer. She is a first-generation Chinese American author whose debut novel ''Bone'' told the story of three Chinese American daughters growing up in ...
* Bich Minh Nguyen, novelist * Kien Nguyen *
Qui Nguyen Qui Nguyen is an American playwright, television writer, director and screenwriter. He is best known for his plays, '' She Kills Monsters'' and "Vietgone." He is also known for writing '' Raya and the Last Dragon'' and '' Strange World''. Ca ...
* Nguyen Qui Duc *
Viet Thanh Nguyen The Vietnamese people ( vi, người Việt, lit=Viet people) or Kinh people ( vi, người Kinh) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to modern-day Northern Vietnam and Southern China (Jing Islands, Dongxing, Guangxi). The native lang ...
* Thuc Doan Nguyen *
Yone Noguchi was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He is known in the west as Yone Noguchi. He was the father of noted sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Biography Early life in Japan Nogu ...
* Sigrid Nunez *
John Okada John Okada (September 23, 1923 – February 20, 1971) was a Japanese American novelist known for his critically acclaimed novel ''No-No Boy''. Biography Born in Seattle, Okada was a student at the University of Washington during the attack o ...
* Gary Okihiro * Daniel Okimoto *
Miné Okubo Miné Okubo (; June 27, 1912 – February 10, 2001) was an American artist and writer. She is best known for her book '' Citizen 13660'', a collection of 198 drawings and accompanying text chronicling her experiences in Japanese American internmen ...
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Matthew Olzmann Matthew Olzmann is a poet, author, and essayist. Personal life Matthew Olzmann was born in Detroit, Michigan. He currently teaches at Dartmouth College, and the MFA program at Warren Wilson College. Olzmann is married to poet Vievee Francis. ...
* Ruth Ozeki *
Pai Hsien-yung Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai (; born July 11, 1937) is a Chinese writer from Taiwan who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer". He was born in Guilin, Guangxi at the cusp of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Pai's father was the Kuomintang (KMT) ge ...
, Chinese Muslim writer *
Gary Pak Gary Pak (born 1952) is a writer, editor and professor of English at University of Hawaii. Pak has been noted as one of the most important Asian Hawaiian writers. Biography Gary Pak was born and raised in Hawaii. Pak graduated from Boston Univers ...
, author of ''Children of a Fireland: A Novel'' (2004) and ''Language of the Geckos and Other Stories'' (2005) *
Greg Pak Greg Pak is an American comic book writer and film director. Pak is best known for his work on books published by Marvel Comics, including '' X-Men'' (most notably '' X-Treme X-Men''), several titles featuring the Hulk (including ''Planet Hulk'', ...
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Ty Pak Ty Pak (born Tae-Yong Pak in 1938) is a writer and speaker on Korean/Asian American affairs and literature. Biography Born in Korea shortly before World War II, Pak witnessed Japanese colonial rule, Korea's liberation from Japan in 1945, its ...
, author of ''Guilt Payment'' (1983) and ''Moonbay: Short Stories'' (1999) * Linda Sue Park, novelist * Therese Park *
Yongsoo Park Yongsoo Park is a Korean American writer who has authored the novels ''Boy Genius'' ()and ''Las Cucarachas'' (), the essay collection ''The Art of Eating Bitter: A Hausfrau Dad's Journey with Kids'' (), and the memoir ''Rated R Boy: Growing Up K ...
, author of ''Boy Genius'' (2002), ''Las Cucarachas'' (2004), ''The Art of Eating Bitter: A Hausfrau Dad's Journey With Kids'' (2018), and ''Rated R Boy: Growing Up Korean in 1980s Queens'' (2020) * Kamran Pasha *
Craig Santos Perez Craig Santos Perez (born February 6, 1980) is a poet, essayist, university professor, American publisher (USA) from the Chamorro people, born in Mongmong-Toto-Maite, Guam Island. His poetry has received multiple awards, including a 2015 Americ ...
* Andrew X. Pham * Aimee Phan * Bao Phi * Michelle Naka Pierce * Jon Pineda *
Ramesh Ponnuru Ramesh Ponnuru (; born August 16, 1974) is an American conservative thinker, political pundit, and journalist. He has been a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute since 2012. He is the editor of ''National Review'' magazine, a col ...
* Imad Rahman * Janaki Ram *
Aneesh Raman Aneesh Raman is Vice President and Head of The Opportunity Project at LinkedIn. A former CNN war correspondent and speechwriter to President Barack Obama, Raman is an experienced communicator, focusing his career in recent years on the expansion ...
* A.K. Ramanujan * Anantanand Rambachan, religious writer * Bino Realuyo * Rishi Reddi * Srikanth Reddy * Paisley Rekdal * Nina Revoyr * Barbara Jane Reyes * Bruce Reyes-Chow *
Margaret Rhee Margaret Rhee is a feminist experimental poet, new media artist, and scholar. Her research focuses on technology, and intersections with feminist, queer, and ethnic studies. She has a special interest on digital participatory action research and ...
* Lee Ann Roripaugh * Patrick Rosal * Shawna Yang Ryan *
Edward Said Edward Wadie Said (; , ; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.Robert Young, ''Whi ...
* Albert Saijo * Yumi Sakugawa *
Bienvenido Santos Bienvenido N. Santos (March 22, 1911 – January 7, 1996) was a Filipino-American fiction, poetry and nonfiction writer. He was born and raised in Tondo, Manila. His family roots are originally from Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines. He lived in the ...
* Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo * Allen Say *
Lisa See Lisa See (born 18th February 1955) is an American writer and novelist. Her books include '' On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family'' (1995), a detailed account of See's family history, and the novels '' Flower ...
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Vijay Seshadri Vijay Seshadri (born 13 February 1954) is an American, Brooklyn, New York–based poet, essayist and literary critic. Vijay won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, for ''3 Sections''. Early life Vijay's parents immigrated to the United States ...
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Vikram Seth Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Cross ...
* Simran Sethi, journalist and author of ''Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love'' (2015) * T. K. Seung, philosopher * Purvi Shah, poet *
Naren Shankar Narendra "Naren" Kanakaiah Shankar (born April 1, 1964) is an Indian American writer, producer and director of several television series. He is co-showrunner of the Amazon Prime series '' The Expanse''. He was also co-showrunner on the long-runn ...
, screenwriter * Prageeta Sharma * Brenda Shaughnessy * Sun Yung Shin, poet *
Bapsi Sidhwa Bapsi Sidhwa ( ur, بیپسی سدھوا; born 11 August 1938) is a Pakistani novelist of Gujarati Parsi Zoroastrian descent who writes in English and is a resident in the United States. She is best known for her collaborative work with Ind ...
* SJ Sindu, novelist * Monica Sone, autobiographer * Cathy Song * Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto *
Indu Sundaresan Indu Sundaresan is an Indian-American author of historical fiction. Personal life She was born and raised in India as the daughter of an Indian Air Force pilot, Group Captain R. Sundaresan, who died in a crash while on duty. Her mother's name is ...
, historical fiction author * Sui Sin Far * Sokunthary Svay *
Arthur Sze Arthur Sze (; ; born December 1, 1950) is an American poet, translator, and professor. Since 1972, he has published ten collections of poetry. Sze's ninth collection ''Compass Rose'' (2014) was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. S ...
* Mai-Mai Sze


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Ronald Takaki Ronald Toshiyuki Takaki (April 12, 1939 – May 26, 2009) was an American academic, historian, ethnographer and author. Born in pre-statehood Hawaii, Takaki studied at the College of Wooster and completed his doctorate in American history at t ...
, UC Berkeley history professor * Grace Talusan *
Amy Tan Amy Ruth Tan (born on February 19, 1952) is an American author known for the novel '' The Joy Luck Club,'' which was adapted into a film of the same name, as well as other novels, short story collections, and children's books. Tan has written ...
, novelist * Lucy Tan, novelist * Ronald Tanaka *
Lysley Tenorio Lysley A. Tenorio (born Olongapo City, Philippines) is a Filipino-American short story writer. Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize ...
* Timothy Tau *
Madeleine Thien Madeleine Thien (; born 1974) is a Canadian short story writer and novelist. ''The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature'' has considered her work as reflecting the increasingly trans-cultural nature of Canadian literature, exploring art, expres ...
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Bhagat Singh Thind Bhagat Singh Thind (October 3, 1892 – September 15, 1967) was an Indian American writer and lecturer on spirituality who served in the United States Army during World War I and was involved in a Supreme Court case over the right of India ...
, author * Sherry Thomas, novelist * Tim Toyama, playwright * Barbara Tran * Truong Tran * Vu Tran *
Monique Truong Monique T.D. Truong (born May 13, 1968, in Saigon in South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. She has written multiple books, and her ...
* Hsi Tseng Tsiang (a.k.a. H.T. Tsiang) * Gail Tsukiyama * Yoshiko Uchida * Thrity Umrigar *
Loung Ung Loung Ung ( km, អ៊ឹង លួង; born 19 November 1970) is a Cambodian American human-rights activist, lecturer and national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World, between 1997 and 2003. She has served in the same capaci ...
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Abraham Verghese Abraham Verghese (born 1955) is an American physician, author, Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. He is also the author of ...
* Jose Garcia Villa * Padma Viswanathan * Saymoukda Vongsay *
Ocean Vuong Ocean Vuong (born , ; October 14, 1988) is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. Vuong is a recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T.S. Eliot P ...
* Gemini Wahhaj *
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* Onoto Watanna, a.k.a. Winnifred Eaton * Qian Julie Wang * Weike Wang *
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* Michi Weglyn * Jade Snow Wong * Jane Wong * Nellie Wong * Raymond K. Wong *
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* Merle Woo * Sung J. Woo * Bryan Thao Worra * Fan Wu (吴帆) * William F. Wu * Mitsuye Yamada * Hisaye Yamamoto * Lois-Ann Yamanaka * Karen Tei Yamashita *
Wakako Yamauchi Wakako Yamauchi (October 23, 1924 – August 16, 2018) was a Japanese American writer. Her plays are considered pioneering works in Asian-American theater. Biography Yamauchi (née Nakamura) was born in Westmorland, California. Her mother and ...
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Gene Luen Yang Gene Luen Yang (Chinese Traditional: 楊謹倫, Simplified: 杨谨伦, Pinyin: ''Yáng Jǐnlún''; born August 9, 1973) is an American cartoonist. He is a frequent lecturer on the subjects of graphic novels and comics, at comic book conventions a ...
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Jeff Yang Jeff Yang () (born ) is an American writer, journalist, businessman, and business/media consultant who writes the ''Tao Jones'' column for '' The Wall Street Journal''. Previously, he was the "Asian Pop" columnist at the '' San Francisco Chronic ...
* Kao Kalia Yang * Yanyi *
John Yau John Yau (born June 5, 1950) is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published over 50 books of poetry, artists' books, fiction ...
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Lisa Yee Lisa Yee (born August 27, 1959) is a Chinese American writer and the author of '' Millicent Min, Girl Genius'' (2003), '' Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time'' (2005) and '' So Totally Emily Ebers'' (2007). The three books are a part of a trilogy, summ ...
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Paul Yoon Paul Yoon (born 1980) is an American fiction writer. In 2010 The National Book Foundation named him a 5 Under 35 honoree. Early life and education Yoon's grandfather was a North Korean refugee who resettled in South Korea, where he later founded ...
* Monica Youn * C. Dale Young * Charles Yu, novelist * Lizzie Yu Der Ling *
Laurence Yep Laurence Michael Yep (; born June 14, 1948) is an American writer. He is known for his children's books, having won the Newbery Honor twice for his ''Golden Mountain'' series. In 2005, he received the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for his c ...
* Connie Young Yu, writer and historian * Judy Yung *
Fareed Zakaria Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (; born 20 January 1964) is an Indian-American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN's '' Fareed Zakaria GPS'' and writes a weekly paid column for '' The Washington Post.'' He has been a colum ...
, political analyst author * C. Pam Zhang * Jenny Zhang * Jenny Tinghui Zhang * Kat Zhang *
Helen Zia Helen Zia is a Chinese-American journalist and activist for Asian American and LGBTQ rights. She is considered a key figure in the Asian American movement. Life and career Early childhood and education Zia was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1952 ...
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See also

* Asian American Literary Awards * Asian American literature * Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature *
Before Columbus Foundation The Before Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed, "dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American multicultural literature". The Foundation makes annual awards for books published in ...
* Chinese American literature *
List of American writers of Korean descent Korean American literature treats a wide range of topics including Korean life in America, the intersection of American and Korean culture in the lives of young Korean Americans, as well as life and history on the Korean peninsula. To be included ...
* List of Asian Canadian writers *
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States ''The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States'' (''MELUS'') is a scholarly society established in 1974. MELUS publishes a quarterly academic journal, ''MELUS''. The aim of the Society is "to expand the definition o ...


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