photo credit: Belle's pop, Joseph, 2008. Hat by maggiemae.com
Author Biography
Belle Yang, subject of the PBS documentary, “My Name is Belle,” is frequently asked whether she is primarily a writer or a painter. Answer: "When I'm writing, I'm a writer; when I'm painting, I'm a painter." She is also asked whether she is a children's author or of adult books.
The immigration journey, moving from Taiwan to Japan at age five and then to America during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, learning English as my third language.
Democracy Spring (1989) and the Tiananmen Massacre which silenced the voices of the Chinese people.
My father's Manchurian stubbornness and my mother's Hakka obstinacy.
The five years of stalking which drove me to writing and painting in solitude.
The benevolent spirit of my great grandfather who was swept out of his estate to wander a beggar under Communism.
Favorite Authors
Chekhov, Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Frost, Van Gogh, Dickinson, David B., Sun-Tzu, Homer
What I'm Reading
I-Ching, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Illiad
