List of Asian-American writers explained
This is a list of Asian American writers, authors, and poets who have Wikipedia pages. Their works are considered part of Asian American literature.
A–D
- Ai
- Shaila Abdullah
- Aria Aber
- George Abraham
- Jessica Abughattas
- Dilruba Ahmed, poet
- Maya Ajmera
- Meena Alexander
- Agha Shahid Ali
- Kazim Ali
- Noel Alumit
- Mia Alvar
- Hala Alyan
- Ryka Aoki
- Fatimah Asghar
- Aziz Ansari
- Gina Apostol
- Gaiutra Bahadur
- Shauna Singh Baldwin
- Peter Bacho, American Book Award winner for the novel Cebu
- Ravi Batra
- Cathy Bao Bean (包圭漪)
- Susham Bedi
- Bette Bao Lord (包柏漪)
- Rick Barot
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (白萱华), poet [1]
- Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
- Sujata Bhatt
- Jaswinder Bolina
- Jenny Boully
- Carlos Bulosan
- Regie Cabico
- Lan Cao
- Celso Al Carunungan[1]
- Linda Ty Casper
- Gilbert Luis R. Centina III
- Steph Cha
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
- Jeffery Paul Chan (陈耀光)
- Rajiv Chandrasekaran
- Jay Chandrasekhar, screenwriter
- Diana Chang (張粲芳), novelist
- Eileen Chang (张爱玲)
- Iris Chang (張純如)
- Jennifer Chang
- K-Ming Chang
- Lan Samantha Chang
- Leonard Chang
- Tina Chang
- Lisa Changadveja
- Bonnie Chau
- Maneet Chauhan
- Daniyal Mueenuddin, author
- Cathy Linh Che
- Alexander Chee
- Anelise Chen
- Justina Chen
- Su Hua Ling Chen (凌叔华)[1]
- Nien Cheng (郑念)[1]
- Anna Chennault (陈香梅)[1]
- King-Kok Cheung
- Cheng Sait Chia[1]
- Fay Chiang[1]
- Monlin Chiang (蒋梦麟)[1]
- Ted Chiang, Hugo and Nebula Award winner
- Frank Chin (趙健秀)
- Justin Chin
- Marilyn Chin (陈美玲)
- Mei Chin
- Staceyann Chin
- Frank Ching[1]
- Kah Kyung Cho, philosopher
- Khendum Choden
- Don Mee Choi
- Susan Choi
- Roshani Chokshi
- Deepak Chopra
- Louis Chu (雷霆超), author of Eat a Bowl of Tea (1961)
- Seo-Young Chu (주서영), author of "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe" and "I, Discomfort Woman"
- Wesley Chu (朱恆昱), science fiction writer
- Frances Chung
- Philip W. Chung, playwright
- Peter Ho Davies
- Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Dinesh D'Souza, conservative journalist
- Tony D'Souza
- Bei Dao
- Oliver de la Paz
- Margaret Dilloway, author of How To Be An American Housewife (2010)
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Do Nguyen Mai, poet
E–J
K–L
- Cynthia Kadohata
- Michiko Kakutani
- Mindy Kaling
- Jay Caspian Kang, journalist, novelist
- Michael Kang
- Minsoo Kang, historian and writer
- Younghill Kang, novelist
- Bhanu Kapil
- Sheba Karim
- Hiroshi Kashiwagi, poet, playwright, novelist
- Soji Kashiwagi, playwright
- Siddharth Katragadda
- Nora Okja Keller, author of Comfort Woman (1997) and Fox Girl (2002)
- Porochista Khakpour
- Uzma Aslam Khan
- Parag Khanna
- Crystal Hana Kim
- Elaine H. Kim, author of Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context
- Jaegwon Kim, philosopher
- Myung Mi Kim
- Patti Kim
- Richard E. Kim, novelist
- Suki Kim, novelist
- Ronyoung Kim
- Maxine Hong Kingston, novelist
- Katie Kitamura
- Bharti Kirchner
- Alexandra Kleeman
- Lisa Ko
- Dorinne K. Kondo
- Gowri Koneswaran
- R.F. Kuang
- Helena Kuo[1]
- Kevin Kwan, author
- Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation (2010)
- Dan Kwong
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Him Mark Lai
- Andrew Lam
- Le Thi Diem Thuy
- Ang Lee
- Chang-Rae Lee
- Chin Yang Lee (黎錦揚)
- Gus Lee (李健孫)
- Helie Lee
- Karen An-hwei Lee
- Krys Lee
- Li-Young Lee
- Stacey Lee
- Joseph O. Legaspi
- Russell Leong
- Yiyun Li
- Sandra Lim
- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
- Adet and Anor Lin[1]
- Ed Lin
- Grace Lin
- Tan Lin
- Tao Lin
- Lin Tai-yi[1]
- R. Zamora Linmark
- Linh Dinh
- Eric Liu
- Ken Liu (刘宇昆), Hugo and Nebula Award winner
- Marjorie Liu
- Timothy Liu
- Malinda Lo
- Teresa Lo, novelist and screenwriter
- Vyvyane Loh
- Mimi Lok
- Bette Bao Lord
- Marie Lu
- David Wong Louie
M–S
- Ling Ma
- Adeline Yen Mah (馬嚴君玲)
- Sezan Mahmud
- Michelle Malkin, conservative newspaper columnist
- Sally Wen Mao
- Maliha Masood
- Sujata Massey
- Kristina McMorris
- Mong-Lan
- Tulika Mehrotra
- Hasan Minhaj
- Mary Anne Mohanraj
- Toshio Mori
- Mai Neng Moua
- Bharati Mukherjee
- David Mura
- Milton Murayama
- Sabina Murray
- An Na, novelist
- Ken Narasaki, playwright
- Sunil Nayar, television writer
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Celeste Ng
- Fae Myenne Ng
- Bich Minh Nguyen, novelist
- Kien Nguyen
- Qui Nguyen
- Nguyen Qui Duc
- Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Thuc Doan Nguyen
- Yone Noguchi
- Sigrid Nunez
- John Okada
- Gary Okihiro
- Daniel Okimoto[1]
- Miné Okubo[1]
- Matthew Olzmann
- Ruth Ozeki
- Pai Hsien-yung, Chinese Muslim writer
- Gary Pak, author of Children of a Fireland: A Novel (2004) and Language of the Geckos and Other Stories (2005)
- Greg Pak
- Ty Pak, author of A Korean Decameron: Tales of the Yi Dynasty (1961), Guilt Payment (1983), Cry Korea Cry (1999), Moonbay: Short Stories (1999), Dear, Daughter (2017) and Moonbay: Short Stories (1999)
- Linda Sue Park, novelist
- Therese Park
- Yongsoo Park, author of Boy Genius (2002), Las Cucarachas (2004), The Art of Eating Bitter: A Hausfrau Dad's Journey With Kids (2018), and Rated R Boy: Growing Up Korean in 1980s Queens (2020)
- Kamran Pasha
- Craig Santos Perez
- Andrew X. Pham
- Aimee Phan
- Bao Phi
- Michelle Naka Pierce
- Jon Pineda
- Ramesh Ponnuru
- Imad Rahman
- Aneesh Raman
- A.K. Ramanujan
- Anantanand Rambachan, religious writer
- Bino Realuyo
- Rishi Reddi
- Srikanth Reddy
- Paisley Rekdal
- Nina Revoyr
- Barbara Jane Reyes
- Bruce Reyes-Chow
- Margaret Rhee
- Lee Ann Roripaugh
- Patrick Rosal
- Shawna Yang Ryan
- Edward Said
- Albert Saijo[2]
- Yumi Sakugawa
- Bienvenido Santos
- Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo
- Allen Say
- Lisa See, novelist
- Vijay Seshadri
- Vikram Seth
- T. K. Seung, philosopher
- Purvi Shah, poet
- Naren Shankar, screenwriter
- Prageeta Sharma
- Brenda Shaughnessy
- Sun Yung Shin, poet
- Bapsi Sidhwa
- SJ Sindu, novelist
- Monica Sone, autobiographer
- Cathy Song
- Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto[1]
- Indu Sundaresan, historical fiction author
- Sui Sin Far
- Sokunthary Svay
- Arthur Sze
- Mai-Mai Sze[1]
T–Z
- Eileen Tabios
- Ronald Takaki, UC Berkeley history professor
- Grace Talusan
- Amy Tan, novelist
- Lucy Tan, novelist
- Ronald Tanaka[1]
- Lysley Tenorio
- Timothy Tau
- Madeleine Thien
- Bhagat Singh Thind, author
- Sherry Thomas, novelist
- Tim Toyama, playwright
- Barbara Tran
- Truong Tran
- Vu Tran
- Monique Truong
- Hsi Tseng Tsiang (a.k.a. H.T. Tsiang)
- Gail Tsukiyama
- Yoshiko Uchida
- Thrity Umrigar
- Loung Ung
- Abraham Verghese
- Jose Garcia Villa[1]
- Padma Viswanathan
- Saymoukda Vongsay
- Ocean Vuong
- Raees Warsi
- Onoto Watanna, a.k.a. Winnifred Eaton
- Qian Julie Wang
- Weike Wang
- Yun Wang
- Michi Weglyn
- Jade Snow Wong
- Jane Wong
- Nellie Wong
- Raymond K. Wong
- Shawn Wong
- Merle Woo
- Sung J. Woo
- Bryan Thao Worra
- Fan Wu (吴帆)
- William F. Wu
- Mitsuye Yamada
- Hisaye Yamamoto
- Lois-Ann Yamanaka
- Karen Tei Yamashita
- Wakako Yamauchi
- Gene Luen Yang (楊謹倫)
- Jeff Yang
- Kao Kalia Yang
- Yanyi
- John Yau[1]
- Lisa Yee
- Paul Yoon
- Monica Youn
- C. Dale Young
- Charles Yu, novelist
- Lizzie Yu Der Ling
- Laurence Yep
- Connie Young Yu, writer and historian
- Judy Yung
- Fareed Zakaria, political analyst author
- C. Pam Zhang
- Jenny Zhang
- Jenny Tinghui Zhang
- Kat Zhang
- Helen Zia (謝漢蘭)
See also
External links
Notes and References
- listed in Amy Ling's bibliography, "Asian American Literature," in Redefining American Literary History, A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, eds., MLA, 1990.
- 1208725. Semiotic Shepherds: Gary Snyder, Frank O'Hara, and the Embodiment of an Urban Pastoral. Winter 1998. Contemporary Literature. 39. 4. 541. Timothy C.. Gray. University of Wisconsin Press. Madison, Wisconsin. 10.2307/1208725 . 0010-7484.
