Meet The Author: Curtis Chin!
This reading kicks off a 12-event book tour of the UK.
The book has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, as well as CBS Saturday Morning News and NBC News. It’s also been honoured by the State of Michigan, the American Library Association, the Association for Asian American Studies, and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Here is a segment that aired on PBS Newshour.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOOv1AKvX4c
A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profit’s first Executive Director. He went on to write comedy for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries.
Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in twenty countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press, and the Emancipator/Boston Globe. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and more.
His memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant” was published by Little, Brown in Fall 2023. His essay in Bon Appetit was selected for Best Food Writing in America 2023.
Join us to learn more about his journey!
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