Occupation novelist Genre novel, poetry | Name Diana Chang | |
Nationality Chinese, Japanese, American | ||
Notable works The Frontiers of Love | ||
Diana chang
Diana Chang (born 1934) is a Chinese American novelist and poet. She is best known for her novel The Frontiers of Love, one of the earliest novels by an Asian American woman. She is considered to be the first Chinese American (born in the States) to publish a novel in the States.
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Early life
Chang was born in New York City to a Chinese father and Eurasian mother, but spent her youngest years in China, including Beijing, Nanking, and Shanghai. She attended high school in New York, and graduated from Barnard College. After graduation, she worked as a book editor. She has also worked as the editor for the PEN-sponsored journal American Pen and as a creative writing teacher at Barnard.
Literary work
Chang's best known work is The Frontiers of Love. Her work has more recently been read in terms of postmodernity and hybridity. Although critical work on Chang has increased since the republication of Frontiers, critics have preferred to examine her Asian-themed works; her "white" novels are only recently getting attention.