Laurence Michael Yep

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Laurence Michael Yep (pinyin: Yè Xiángtian; born June 14, 1948) is a prolific Chinese-American writer best known for children's books.

He received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Prize in 2005 for his lifetime contributions to American children's literature.

Personal life

Joanne Ryder was born in 1984. They live in Pacific Grove, California.

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Life, education, and career

Yep was born in Chinatown, California, to Thomas (Gim Lew) Yep and Franche Lee Yep. His father, a first-generation American born in China, had immigrated to San Francisco as a child and met with an Irish friend in his neighborhood. His mother, a second-generation Chinese American, was born in Ohio and raised in West Virginia, where her family owned a Chinese laundry. Yep's family migrated to a predominantly African American neighborhood after being pushed through the Great Depression. Yep grew up working in the family grocery store, where he recalls learning early on "how to observe and listen to people and how to relate to others." It was excellent preparation for a writer."

Yep was selected by his older brother Thomas, who had just been researching Saint Lawrence's biography for school. He spent his early childhood riding his bicycle from his neighborhood to a Catholic school in Chinatown for Chinese children, where he was often mocked by the majority of bilingual students for only knowing how to speak English.

He did not confront white American culture in person until high school, not before being brought up among Black and Chinese children. Despite being interested in science, at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, he became involved in literature and creative writing. At the age of 18, Yep wrote his first article in a science fiction magazine while still in high school. If he wanted to get an A grade, his English teacher, a Jesuit priest, encouraged him to write in newspapers until it was published. Despite the fact that Yep had always been fascinated with machines and aspired to be a chemist, this experience prompted him to consider what a writing career might be like.

In 1966, Yep graduated from St. Ignatius College Preparatory.

He didn't decide to become a writer until he attended Marquette University. Joanne Ryder, a literary magazine editor, became a mentor. While Harper & Row, she introduced him to children's literature and later encouraged him to write a book for children. The result, Sweetwater, Harper & Row's first science fiction book for teenagers, was published in 1973. Yep transferred to UC Santa Cruz, where he obtained his BA in 1970. He spent two years at Marquette. At Buffalo's State University of New York, he later earned a PhD in English.

Writing career

Yep has often felt torn between mainstream American culture and his Chinese roots, a topic he has often written about. Characters are often stereotyped or unwilling to fit into their environment, which Yep has described as "too American to fit into Chinatown" and too Chinese to fit in somewhere else.

Yep wrote creative writing and Asian-American studies at the University of California's Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara during his writing career.

The Golden Mountain Chronicles is Yep's most popular series of paintings, tracing the fictional Young family from 1849 in China to 1995 in America. Newbery Honor Books, or runners-up for the annual Newbery Medal: Dragonwings (Harper & Row, 1975) and Dragon's Gate (HarperCollins, 1993), two books in the series. In 1995, Dragonwings received the Children's Literature Association's best children's book, which was not recognized until then, but that did not win a major award. In 1976, it received the Carter G. Woodson Book Award, and it has since been adapted as a play under its original title. Child of the Owl, one of the Chronicles' children's literature, received the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in 1977. (The Rainbow People, Yep's collection of short stories based on Chinese folktales and legends, was a Horn Book runner-up in 1989.)

Yep was the author of two other well-known series, Chinatown Mysteries and Dragon (1982-1992). The latter is a Chinese mythology adaptation that has been translated into four fantasy books.

Yep was awarded the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 2005, which honors a living author or illustrator whose books, which were published in the United States, have made "a significant and lasting contribution to literature for children." With "attention to the complexity and conflict within and across cultures," the committee wrote, "Yep investigates the paradox of the outsider," with "attention to the diversity and conflict within and across cultures," the committee said, citing four works in particular: Dragonwings, The Khan's Daughter, and The Lost Garden.

Cartoon Network brought The Tiger's Apprentice, a David Magee-based cartoon, to a conclusion until Cartoon Network stopped producing live-action television shows. Paramount Pictures released an animated film version of the book in March 2019, with a script by Magee and a release date of February 11, 2022.

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