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PLEASE NOTE. As of June 2004 these pages and the links herein are no longer being updated or maintained. Disclaimer : Oakland Unified School District is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. Author Biography: Ruthanne Lum McCunn is an Eurasian of Chinese and Scottish descent. Born in 1946 in San Francisco's Chinatown, she grew up in Hong Kong, where she was educated first in Chinese and then British schools. In 1962 she returned to the U.S. to attend college. Ruthanne began writing seriously when she was thirty. Three years later, she published her first novel THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD, the story of a Chinese American pioneer's experiences as a slave and free woman in the Pacific Northwest. Acclaimed as a "stunning biography" by the Los Angeles Times, THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD was a Quality Paperback Book Club Alternate and was made into a film. Her children's picture book, PIE-BITER, won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award in 1984, and her account of the world's champion survivor Poon Lim, published as SOLE SURVIVOR, was a Dolphin Book Club Alternate and selected as 1985 Best Book, Nonfiction Adventure by the Southwest Booksellers Association. Choice selected her CHINESE AMERICAN PORTRAITS: PERSONAL HISTORIES 1828-1988 as an Outstanding Academic Book in 1990. And her novel WOODEN FISH SONGS won the Women's Heritage Museum's Jeanne Farr McDonnell Award for Best Fiction in 1997. A stage adaptation of this book enjoyed successful tours of over thirty colleges, libraries, museums, and community organizations including the Smithsonian and University of Hawaii. More... http://www.mccunn.com/Bio.html (© McCunn) Websites about Ruth Anne Lum McCunn |
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