Author of historical, non-fiction books. She is best known for the The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, a bestseller which many thought a necessary reminder of a painful event although doubters questioned its inaccuracy, She is also the author of Thread of the Silkworm, the biography of Tsien Hsue-shen, a Chinese American scientist who was a victim of McCarthy era paranoia and deported to China, where he subsequently became the father of the Chinese missile program. Her last book was The Chinese in America: A Narrative History

Exiled Chinese novelist and playwright who has been living in France since 1987. He was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature for "for an œuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama". He is the first Chinese person to win this literary award. English translations of his books include Soul Mountain,   One Man's Bible, and The Other Shore. An accomplished painter, a collection of his traditional Chinese paintings have been published in Ink Paintings by Gao Xingjian

Author of short stories and novels. Her first novel, Typical American, follows the story of Ralph Chang, a Chinese immigrant in search of the American dream. Its sequel, Mona in the Promised Land, continues the story with Ralph's daughter Mona, a teenager converting to Judaism. Jen also published a collection of short stories called  Who's Irish?: Stories