Gish Jen  (b. 1956) LINKS Gish Jen http://www.mcdougallittell.com/lit/guest/garchive/jen.htm This Web site, managed by McDougal Littell, features a brief biography of Gish Jen as well as a question-and-answer session in which Gish Jen answers questions from her readers. Oregon Live: Sherman Alexie, David Foster Wallace, Cristina Garcia, and Gish Jen http://www.oregonlive.com/books/feb98/BK980204FL1.html This page is based on a discussion that took place in Portland, Oregon, between these four exciting young novelists. They discuss their work, what they read, what inspires them to write, and the isolation of writing. Offers a link to an interview and review of Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land. BIOGRAPHY Gish Jen (b. 1956) grew up in Scarsdale, New York. Educated at Harvard University, Stanford University, and the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, she has taught writing at such institutions as Tufts University and the University of Massachusetts. Jen is known for her humorous yet incisive short stories and novels about Chinese American life. In two of her novels, Typical American (1991) and Mona in the Promised Land (1996), Jen follows the trials and tribulations of the same fictional Chinese American family, the Changs.

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