Gene Luen Yang was awarded the ... science through mystery stories. Yang’s graphic novel for young adults, “Boxers and Saints,” won the L.A. Times Book Prize in 2014; he’s currently ...

When Gene Luen ... Book Award in 2006, when his American Born Chinese received the honor, and Yang's recent two-edition historical fiction take on the Boxer Rebellion, Boxers and Saints (released ...

Over the weekend, the acclaimed author Gene Luen Yang delivered ... novel to be a National Book Award finalist, a feat he repeated last year with his epic “Boxers & Saints” — but he also ...

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Gene Luen Yang's breakout 2006 graphic novel, American Born Chinese, won a lot of accolades for the Oakland, California-based writer, artist and educator, including several that also marked ...

Gene Luen Yang, a Chinese-American graphic novelist whose works often explore issues of identity, will be inaugurated Thursday as the 5th National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, a ...