List of Asian Americans - Literature

Literature

• Alfredo Alcala – Filipino comic book artist.
• Peter Bacho, author of the American Book Award winning novel Cebu
• Lynda Barry – mestiza cartoonist, most known for Ernie Pook's Comeek and Marlys, published in Salon.com and other independent papers; she created the prototype for what would become the cartoon hit series, The Simpsons
• Carlos Bulosan – author, "America Is In the Heart."
• Regie Cabico – notable slam poet and performer.
• Jorge Cham, author of PhD Comics
• Ernie Chan – comic book artist/inker for Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
• Eileen Chang - writer
• Lan Samantha Chang - writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop
• Frank Chin (趙健秀) - novelist, playwright, and essayist
• Kah Kyung Cho - philosopher at SUNY University
• Dianne de Las Casas – author and award-winning storyteller
• Melissa de la Cruz – author of teen lit series Au Pairs, The Ashleys and Blue Bloods
• Tony DeZuniga – co-creator of Jonah Hex
• Ben Fee - writer and labor organizer
• Don Figueroa - comic book artist for IDW Publishing and Dreamwave Entertainment, working on various Transformers titles.
• Tanuja Desai Hidier, author of Born Confused
• David Henry Hwang (黃哲倫) - playwright
• Gish Jen - writer, novelist
• Ha Jin - novelist, winner of the National Book Award for "Waiting"
• Rafael Kayanan – comic book artist and master level instructor in Sayoc Kali.
• Maxine Hong Kingston - writer, novelist
• Jean Kwok - writer, novelist
• Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
• Gus Lee (李健孫) - writer
• Jim Lee - DC Comics writer, artist, editor and publisher
• Huping Ling- history professor, award-winning author, Executive Editor for the Journal of Asian American Studies
• Bette Bao Lord (包柏漪) - writer, novelist
• David Wong Louie - writer
• Jaegwon Kim - philosopher at Brown University
• Adeline Yen Mah (馬嚴君玲) - author and physician
• Nick Manabat – creator of Cybernary, comic book artist for Wildstorm Productions
• Gary R. Mar - philosopher at Stony Brook University
• William Marr (馬為義, 非馬) - Engineer, poet, translator, and artist
• Kenn Navarro – animator of cartoon Happy Tree Friends
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil – award-winning poet and professor
• Han Ong – playwright and author; recipient of MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant.
• Pai Hsien-yung: Chinese Muslim writer
• Linda Sue Park, American-born author; winner of the 2002 Newbery Medal for A Single Shard
• Whilce Portacio – created Bishop of the X-Men, co-founder of Image Comics.
• Randy Romero – Writer
• Saumitra Saxena, award winning poet in the modern Indian history. Graduated from Indian Institutue of Technology and received his Phd. from University of Illinois at Chicago.
• Lisa See - writer
• T. K. Seung - philosopher and literary critic at University of Texas, Austin
• Kamila Shamsie Award-winning novelist of books such as Salt and Saffron and Broken Verses.
• Eileen Tabios – poet.
• Ronald Takaki was an academic, historian, ethnographer and author.
• Amy Tan best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Kitchen God's Wife, etc.
• Romeo Tanghal – comic book artist.
• Bryan Thao Worra - Award-winning Lao American writer, 1st Lao American NEA Fellow in Literature.
• Alex Tizon – Pulitzer Prize Winner.
• Dr. Abraham Verghese noted Doctor and Author; In My Own Country and My Tennis Partner
• Jose Garcia Villa – poet, writer, generationalist; pre-Beat Generation influence.
• Jade Snow Wong - writer
• Shawn Wong - novelist, "Americanese" and "Homebase"
• Timothy C. Wong (黃宗泰) - sinologist, translator, and literary theorist
• Gene Luen Yang - graphic novelist
• Laurence Yep (叶祥添)- author of children's books
• Judy Yung - writer