Asian American Literature: Reviews and Criticism of Works by American Writers of Asian Descent

The Asian American population is increasing both in its size and diversity. Asian American Literature contains entries on 45 poets, novelists, dramatists, essayists, writers of memoirs and short story writers. “The first novelist of Chinese ancestry to be published in the United States”, Winifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna) (1875‐1954), whose Miss Nume of Japan was published in 1899, is included. Also in the volume is her sister Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far) (1865‐l914) whose short story collection Mrs Spring Fragrance published in 1912 “was the first book about Chinese American life published in the United States by a woman of Chinese...