Asian and Asian American Authors
China
| Amy Tan | Popular author of family relationships particulary the mother-daughter aspect. Her early novel, The Joy-Luck Club was made into a motion picture |
| Lisa See | author of the Liu Hulan and David Stark mystery series of contemporary China, the first of the series Flower Net was nominated for an Edgar Award. Her latest novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a historical novel of 19th-century China |
| Laura Joh Rowland | Chinese/Korean author but her mystery series is set in 17th Century Japan with Sano Ichiro, chief investigator for the current Shogun of the time |
| Anchee Min | Born in China, Min emigrated to the US in the early 1980's. Her novels focus on historical Chinese fiction regarding life as Chinese royalty |
| Aimee Liu | Chinese American author of historical ficton and espionage thrillers |
| Kim Wong Keltner | Chinese-American author of humorous chick lit about the ups and downs of growing up as a Chinese American woman in San Francisco. |
India
| Jhumpa Lahiri | Indian American (Bengali) Pulizter Prize winning author for her debut short story collection Interpreter of Maladies. Her second work, The Namesake will be released as a motion picture in March 2007 |
| Sujata Massey | Indian/German author of the Rei Shimura mystery series. Rei is a Japanese American antiques dealer dealing with crime and her family on both sides of the Pacific. The first novel of the series The Salaryman's Wife won an Agatha Award and was nominated for the Anthony Award |
Japan
| Julie Otsuka | Japanese American author born and raised in California, her debut novel When the Emperor was Divine was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction |
| Haruki Murakami | One of Japan's most popular authors and winner of many international book awards, many of his novels are in translation. His latest short story collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman includes many that appeared in the New Yorker magazine. |
Korea
| Nora Okja Keller | Fox Girl focuses on children left behind after the Korean War |
| Mia Yun | Author from Korea now residing in New York. Literary fiction with a focus in childhood memories |
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