Gene Luen Yang

Gene Luen Yang is an American writer and artist of comics and graphic novels. In 1996, he published “Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks” through his own label, Humble Comics, later receiving a Xeric Grant for the work. His best-known works include “American Born Chinese,” “Boxers & Saints,” “Dragon Hoops,” “The Shadow Hero,” “Secret Coders,” “Superman Smashes the Klan,” and the comic adaptations of “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” “American Born Chinese” won the Printz Award and an Eisner Award; “Boxers & Saints” was a National Book Award finalist and received the Los Angeles Times Book Award. “Dragon Hoops” won an Eisner Award and received a Printz Honor. Yang was the fifth National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature at the Library of Congress and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016.