LAN SAMANTHA CHANG
Name: Lan Samantha Chang
Born: 1965
Lan Samantha Chang born 1965, is an American writer of novels and short
stories. Her works include Hunger, a novella plus four short stories, and
Inheritance, a novel.
She was born in Wisconsin, the daughter of Chinese parents who survived the
World War II Japanese occupation of China and later emigrated to the United
States. Chang has received fellowships from Stanford (the Stegner Fellowship)
and Princeton Universities. She has most recently served as the Briggs-Copeland
Lecturer of Creative Writing at Harvard University. Chang received an M.F.A. (Master
of Fine Arts) in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa, an M.P.A. (Master
of Public Administration) from Harvard University, and a B.A. in East Asian
Studies from Yale University. At Yale, she served as managing editor of the Yale
Daily News.
Chang is currently Professor of English at the University of Iowa and Director
of the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop; she is the first female and Asian
American writer to serve as director of the Workshop.
The five stories in Hunger (1998) deal mainly with the position of Chinese in
America, though the last of them is set in pre-Communist Shanghai. Inheritance (2004)
is the story of a wealthy but declining family in Republican China, beginning in
1925 and extending through the period of the Japanese invasion and the post-war
flight to Taiwan and then the USA.
Name: Lan Samantha Chang
Born: 1965
Lan Samantha Chang born 1965, is an American writer of novels and short
stories. Her works include Hunger, a novella plus four short stories, and
Inheritance, a novel.
She was born in Wisconsin, the daughter of Chinese parents who survived the
World War II Japanese occupation of China and later emigrated to the United
States. Chang has received fellowships from Stanford (the Stegner Fellowship)
and Princeton Universities. She has most recently served as the Briggs-Copeland
Lecturer of Creative Writing at Harvard University. Chang received an M.F.A. (Master
of Fine Arts) in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa, an M.P.A. (Master
of Public Administration) from Harvard University, and a B.A. in East Asian
Studies from Yale University. At Yale, she served as managing editor of the Yale
Daily News.
Chang is currently Professor of English at the University of Iowa and Director
of the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop; she is the first female and Asian
American writer to serve as director of the Workshop.
The five stories in Hunger (1998) deal mainly with the position of Chinese in
America, though the last of them is set in pre-Communist Shanghai. Inheritance (2004)
is the story of a wealthy but declining family in Republican China, beginning in
1925 and extending through the period of the Japanese invasion and the post-war
flight to Taiwan and then the USA.