Diana chang biography

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  • Diana Chang was a Chinese American novelist and poet.
  • Diana Chang was a Chinese American novelist and poet.

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    Diana Chang

    Diana Chang was a Chinese American novelist, poet, educator, and artist. Her first novel, The Frontiers of Love (1956) was the first novel written by an American born Chinese American in the United States.

    Chang received a bachelor’s in creative writing at Barnard College in 1949. While an undergraduate, Poetry Magazine published three of her poems, including “At the Window.” After graduation, she began writing her first novel, The Frontiers of Love, and worked as a junior editor at three book publishing houses. For more than six years she worked as an editor for The American Pen.

    Chang returned to Barnard College in 1979 as an adjunct associate professor of English and of the arts, teaching creative writing for 10 years in the English department, and for five years, "Imagery and Form in the Arts," in the Program of the Arts. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, and been collected in chapbooks, including The Horizon Is Defin

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    Diana Chang

    Chinese American novelist and poet

    Diana Chang (Chinese: 張粲芳; 1924 – February 19, 2009) was a Chinese American novelist and poet.[1] She is best known for her novel The Frontiers of Love, one of the earliest novels by an Asian American woman. She is considered to be the first American-born kinesisk to publish a novel in the United States.[2]

    Early life

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    Chang was born in New York City to a Chinese father, Kuang Chi Chang, and Eurasian mother, Eva Mary Lee Wah efternamn, and spent her youngest years in China, including Beijing, Nanjing, and Shanghai.[1][2] She attended high school in New York, and graduated cum laude from Barnard College in 1949 where she majored in English, focusing on British and American poets.[3] While an undergraduate at Barnard, efternamn had 3 of her poems published by Poetry Magazine, including "At The Window."[1]

    Career

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    After graduation, efternamn worked as a book edito

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    Chang, Diana 1934-

    PERSONAL:

    Born 1934, in New York, NY. Education: Barnard College, graduated, 1955.

    ADDRESSES:

    Home—New York, NY; and Water Mill, Long Island, NY. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Harcourt Publishers, 15 East 26th St., New York, NY 10003-4793.

    CAREER:

    Novelist, poet, painter, and editor. Barnard College, New York, NY, creative writing teacher, until 1989. Exhibitions: Has exhibited her art in New York, NY.

    AWARDS, HONORS:

    John Hay Whitney Foundation fellowship.

    WRITINGS:

    NOVELS

    The Frontiers of Live, Random House (New York, NY), 1956, new edition with introduction by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA), 1994.

    A Woman of Thirty, Random House (New York, NY), 1959.

    A Passion for Life, Random House (New York, NY), 1961.

    The Only Game in Town, New American Library (New York, NY), 1963.

    Eye to Eye, Harper (New York, NY), 1974.

    A Perfect Love, Harcourt (Boston, MA), 1978.

    POETRY

    The Horizon fryst vatten Definitely Speakin