Wendy Law-Yone (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)

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Wendy Law-Yone’s novels reflect the events in her turbulent life. In 1962, while a teenager in Burma, she watched her country become a military dictatorship and imprison her father, a newspaper publisher and political activist. In 1967, attempting to leave the country, she was captured and held for two weeks before being released. After living in Southeast Asia, she immigrated to America in 1973. She was graduated from college two years later and worked as a writer, publishing in the Washington Post Magazine and researching and writing Company...

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