Laurence Yep (born June 14, 1948, San Francisco, California, U.S.) is a prolific American author of more than 60 children’s and young adult books. He is well known for two of his books, Dragonwings (1975) and Dragon’s Gate (1993), which were named Newbery Honor books. In 2005,...
in 2015. Amanda enrolled atHarvard Universityin 2016, while Gabrielle pursuedfilmstudies at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles, but the sisters found ways ofcollaborating, notably working on such projects asRise Up As One(2018), a short film by Gabrielle about activism with Amanda reading ...
Masters has been incarcerated in California’s San Quentin State Prison for the past 41 years. Oprah read the book shortly after it was first published by HarperOne, in 2009, and it left a strong impression: “His story, of a young boy victimized by addiction, poverty, violence, the foste...
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Banks’s first novel, Black Ivory, was a turgid potboiler set in 18th century Louisiana, but it sold well enough to earn an invitation to come to Hollywood, where his next book, Street of Women, became a starring vehicle for Kay Francis under the same name in 1932. Sophie Kerr. ...
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“… as I learned more about the history of California and its place, especially through the role of California engineers in the colonized world, it became clear to me what kind of colony and what kind of place California was in the 19th century.” (Malcolm Harris, Interview, March 1, 20...
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