206 FountainAve. Pacific Grove CA
tel: 831.373.6007
Belle
Yang
Author Artist
Carmel, California
illustrated, adult nonfiction:
Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders
Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale
picture books:
Foo the Flying Frog of Washtub Pond
Amy Tan, in her preface to Baba, writes: "Belle Yang is an American writer who writes in English and thinks in Chinese. Her writing feels Chinese....It is as though we, the readers of English, can now miraculously read Chinese."
"In Belle Yang we have our Isaac Bashevis Singer and Marc Chagall--all in one bright new talent."--Maxine Hong Kingston
"Captivating...rich in humanity...lavishly illustrated and lovingly narrated, Baba wonderfully evokes the sights, sounds and motions of a lost childhood."--Los Angeles Times
one woman shows:
Monterey Museum of Art 1996
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History 1997
Orange County Museum of Art 1997
American Immigration Law Foundation 2007
Born in Taiwan, Belle Yang spent part of her childhood in Japan. At age seven she emigrated to the United States with her family. She attended Stirling University in Scotland, graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in biology but went on to study art at Pasadena Art Center College of Design and the Beijing Institute of Traditional Chinese Painting.
She returned from China to the United States late in 1989 after the Tiananmen Massacre.
"I returned with gratitude in my heart for the freedom of expression given me in America. I returned convinced that I would firmly grasp this gift with both hands."-- from the introduction to Baba.
blog, reviews, interviews and book tour schedule
thoughts on the art of reading and creating a graphic memoir
talks at UC Davis Mondavi Center "WordsTake Wing," honoring diversity in children's literature
"I applaud you for sharing your own story of immigration as you experienced it as a child, and hope that it will be heard by other children who are in similar situations."
-- Nancy Pelosi
g Produced by Mac & Ava Motion Pictures
g Distributed by Center for Asian American Media
g Premiere on public television in May 2007
g Pacific Rim Film Festival October 2007
g DVD availabe at Hauk Fine Arts for $19.95
Reviews of "Forget Sorrow," a graphic memoir
Washington Post Book World Web (Comic Strip)
Washington Post Book World (7.1.07)
San Francisco Chronicle (5.20.07)
San Francisco Chronicle (9.19.04)
San Francisco Examiner (11.26.96)
Northern California Council of the
National Museum of Women in the Arts
To book Belle Yang for author events, contact:
866.528.9269
Literary Agent: Deborah Warren
310.573.9303
watch video of Belle draw her graphic memoir
Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale
Foo the Flying Frog of Washtub Pond
See Video of Always Come Home to Me
CALA Best Children's Book of 2008
Baba: Flight of the Monkey King
