Timothy Mo (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
That Timothy Peter Mo is one of the most highly regarded of contemporary British novelists is supported by the prestigious honors bestowed upon his work, beginning with his first novel. Like its prototypical hero, Mo is a son of mixed parentage—his mother Barbara Helena Falkingham, his father Peter Mo Wan Lung. He was educated at the Convent of the Precious Blood School, Mill Hill, and St. John’s College, Oxford, which awarded him a B.A. in 1971, as well as its coveted Gibbs Prize. He won his next honor, the 1979 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, for his first novel, The Monkey...
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