Meet the author

Gene Luen Yang.

Writer · United States · b. 1973

Gene Luen Yang: Chinese-American Printz-winning cartoonist behind American Born Chinese, Dragon Hoops and Lunar New Year Love Story — observational, culturally-specific YA graphic novels for ages 12+.

Gene Luen Yang is a Chinese-American cartoonist born in 1973, best known for American Born Chinese (Printz Award, 2006, the first graphic novel to win a major literary prize and now a Disney+ TV adaptation), Boxers & Saints, Dragon Hoops, and the Lunar New Year Love Story YA graphic novel. Yang was National Ambassador for Young People's Literature 2016–2017. His voice is observational, culturally specific (often around Chinese-American experience), morally serious. A core contemporary YA / middle-grade graphic-novel author for ages 12+, particularly important to inclusive-reading shelves.