Laurence Yep is the acclaimed author of more than sixty books for
young people and a winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. His
illustrious list of novels includes the Newbery Honor Books
Dragonwings and Dragon's Gate; The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San
Francisco Earthquake of 1906, a Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee; and
The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island, which he cowrote with
his niece, Dr. Kathleen S. Yep, and was named a New York Public
Library's "One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing" and a Bank
Street College of Education Best Children's Book.
Mr. Yep grew up in San Francisco, where he was born. He attended
Marquette University, graduated from the University of California
at Santa Cruz, and received his PhD from the State University of
New York at Buffalo. He lives in Pacific Grove, California, with
his wife, the writer Joanne Ryder.
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