Gene Luen Yang
American Born
Chinese
First
Second/Roaring Brook Press/Holtzbrinck
About the Book
This graphic
novel portrays the life of a young Chinese-American
boy who moves from San Francisco’s Chinatown to
the suburbs, where he is one of two Asian children in
the school.
About the Author
Gene Yang began drawing
comic books in the fifth grade. In 1997, he received
the Xeric Grant, a prestigious comics industry grant,
for Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks,
his first comics work as an adult. He has since written
and drawn a number of titles, including Duncan’s
Kingdom (with art by Derek Kirk Kim) and The
Rosary Comic Book.
He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his lovely
wife, Theresa, and son, Kolbe, and teaches computer
science at a Roman Catholic high school.
Suggested Links
www.humblecomics.com
www.firstsecondbooks.net/abc.html
Excerpts from American
Born Chinese
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