Cy lee biography

He spent more than a year writing "Flower Drum Song," and at the time was renting a small apartment above a Filipino nightclub in San Francisco. He was employed at the time by a Chinese-language newspaper, for which he wrote stories for elderly readers. For his novel, he drew upon his observations about the difference between older immigrants and their more assimilated children.

Lee struggled to find a publisher. After more than a dozen rejections, he was warned by his agent that he might have to "think of another profession. He didn't have the energy to write a two- or three-page critique. References [ edit ]. The Paper. Retrieved The New York Times. Lee: Fortunate son". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on 14 October Retrieved May 25, Lee, author of the best-selling novel 'The Flower Drum Song,' dies at ".

Washington Post. Retrieved 14 October Journalism Quarterly. Eight years later it became the World San Francisco, California. Retrieved 14 October — via Newspapers. Library of Congress. Washington, D. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 February Chin Yang Lee". MELUS, vol. Flower Drum Song. Retrieved October 29, Lee, author of Flower Drum Song, to attend opening night performance".

Retrieved 19 September The novel was out of print and David procured it from a Seattle bookseller. The film adaptation was released in with an all-Asian cast. It bagged 5 Academy Award nominations. CY Lee was thus the first Asian author who had broken into Hollywood commercially. The latter discussed the pro-democracy protests of at Tiananmen Square.

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Cy lee biography

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