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David Henry Hwang (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Biography

David Henry Hwang was born on August 11, 1957, in San Gabriel, a suburb of Los Angeles. His father, Henry Y. Hwang, grew up in Shanghai, China, and in the 1970's founded the Far East National Bank, the first Asian American-owned national bank in the United States. David's mother, Dorothy Hwang, born in southeast China and raised in the Philippines, was a talented pianist who encouraged her son to play the violin. Although David's mother and sister became classical musicians, he opted for jazz and played in an all-Asian rock band during college. He even composed an...

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