2006 National Book Award Finalist
Young People's Literature
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.firstsecondbooks.net/abc.html
Excerpts
From American Born Chinese
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