City of death laurence yep autobiography

He is known for his children's books , having won the Newbery Honor twice for his Golden Mountain series. In , he received the Children's Literature Legacy Award for his career contribution to American children's literature. His father was a first-generation American born in China who had moved to San Francisco as a boy.

His mother was a second-generation Chinese American , was born in Ohio and raised in West Virginia where her family ran a Chinese laundry. After struggling through the Great Depression , Yep's family moved to a multicultural but predominantly African American neighborhood. It was good training for a writer.

The committee noted that "Yep explores the dilemma of the cultural outsider" with "attention to the complexity and conflict within and across cultures" and it cited four works in particular: Dragonwings, The Rainbow People, The Khan's Daughter, and the autobiographical The Lost Garden.

Yep was named by his older brother Thomas, who had just been studying the biography of Saint Lawrence for school. He spent his early childhood commuting from his neighborhood to a Catholic school in Chinatown for Chinese children, where he was often made fun of by the mostly bilingual students for only knowing how to speak English. Not until high school when Yep attended a less segregated Catholic school did he confront white American culture in person, having grown up among Black and Chinese kids.

Although he had always been interested in science, at St. Ignatius College Preparatory , he also became interested in literature and creative writing.

Two-time Newbery Honor Award–winning author Laurence Yep brings his epic City Trilogy to an action-packed and heart-pounding conclusion.

Yep published his first story in a science fiction magazine at the age of 18 while still in high school. His English teacher, a Jesuit priest , motivated him to submit his story to magazines until it got published if he wanted to get an A grade. This experience inspired Yep to first consider what a career in writing might be like, even though he had always been fascinated with machines and wanted to become a chemist.

Yep graduated from St. Ignatius College Preparatory in