In the fields of Ethnic Studies and Literary Scholarship, the term Asian American is a bit vague. In practice, it usually includes writers from East Asia and South Asia, but not from West Asia (Middle Easterners). At the same time, it often includes Asian Canadian writers, such as Joy Kogawa and Michael Ondaatje. Occasionally, it refers to Asian authors who have written about their experiences in the Americas. Technically, it could include hispanophone Asian authors as well.

Asian U.S. writers

A-D

• Ai
• Meena Alexander
• Noel Alumit
• Emigdio Enrique Alvarez
• Amazin Lethi (Le Thi) (Vietnamese Born - International Health & Fitness Author/Fitness Guru)
• Angelo Ancheta
• Peter Bacho, American Book Award winner for Cebu
• Cathy Bao Bean
• Bette Bao Lord (包柏漪)
• Mei-Mei Berssenbruge, poet
• Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
• Carlos Bulosan
• Lan Cao
• Amapola Cabase
• Celso Al Carunungan
• Linda Ty Casper
• Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
• Jeffery Paul Chan
• Diana Chang, novelist
• Eileen Chang
• Emmeline Chang
• Hsin-hai Chang
• Iris Chang (張純如)
• Leonard Chang
• Lia Chang
• Evelina Chao
• Patricia Chao, author of Monkey King: A Novel and Mambo Peligroso: A Novel
• Alexander Chee
• Su Hua Ling Chen
• Yuan-tsung Chen
• Nien Cheng
• Anna Chennault
• King-Kok Cheung
• Cheng Sait Chia
• Fay Chiang
• Monlin Chiang
• Frank Chin (趙健秀)
• Marilyn Chin
• Mei Chin
• Frank Ching
• Christina Chiu
• Tony Chiu
• Eric Chock
• Susan Choi
• Deepak Chopra
• Louis Chu, author of Eat a Bowl of Tea (novel) (1961)
• Chuang Hua
• Dinesh D'Souza (conservative journalist)
• Tony D'Souza
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

E-J

• George Estrada
• Sui Sin Far, a.k.a. Edith Maude Eaton
• Ben Fee
• Eugie Foster
• Luis Francia
• June Fujita
• Francis Fukuyama
• Zulfikar Ghose
• Prince Gomolvilas
• Nestor Vicente M. Gonzalez
• Philip Kan Gotanda
• Han Suyin
• Jessica Hagedorn
• Haing Ngor
• Margaret N. Harada
• Sadakichi Hartmann
• Reiko Hatsumi
• S. I. Hayakawa
• Le Ly Hayslip
• Joseph Heco
• Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award winner
• Garrett Hongo
• Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
• Arthur Hu (Asian Week conservative and noted Asian supremacist)
• TC Huo
• David Henry Hwang (黃哲倫) (playwright)
• Patricia Ikeda
• Lawson Fusao Inada
• Daniel K. Inouye
• Shizue Ishimoto
• Frances Itani
• Sylvia Jang
• Steven Javellana
• Gish Jen
• Ha Jin
• Jeanne Joe

K-L

• Hizakazu Kaneko
• Michiko Kakutani
• Michael Kang
• Younghill Kang, novelist
• Nora Okja Keller, author of Comfort Woman (1997) and Fox Girl (2002)
• Charles Kikuchi
• Akemi Kikumura
• Elaine H. Kim, author of Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context
• Patti Kim
• Peter Kim
• Richard E. Kim, novelist
• Ronyoung Kim
• Young Ik Kim
• Maxine Hong Kingston (novelist)
• Dorinne K. Kondo
• Geraldine Kudaka
• Alexander Kuo
• Helena Kuo
• Dan Kwong
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• Him Mark Lai
• Andrew Lam
• Alan Chong Lau
• Wendy Law-Yone
• Le Thi Diem Thuy
• Chang-Rae Lee
• Chin-yang Lee
• Ching Yang Lee (黎錦揚)
• Gus Lee (李健孫)
• Helie Lee
• Henry K. Lee (Chinese-American, reporter, S.F. Chronicle)
• Li-Young Lee
• Virginia Lee
• William Poy Lee
• Carol Lem
• Monfoon Leong
• Janet Lim
• Shirley Geok-lin Lim
• Adet and Anor Lin
• Alice Lin
• Ed Lin
• Hazel Ai Chun Lin
• Amy Ling
• Lin Tai-yi
• Lin Yutang
• Linh Dinh
• Eric Liu
• Stephen Liu
• Jean Yee Long
• David Wong Louie
• Pardee Lowe
• Alvin Lu

M-S

• Adeline Yen Mah (馬嚴君玲)
• Michelle Malkin (conservative newspaper columnist)
• Haru Matsui (Ayako Ishigaki)
• Ruthanne Lum McCunn
• Sumie Seo Michina
• Janice Mirikatani
• Kazuo Miyamoto
• Mong-Lan
• Toshio Mori
• Bharati Mukherjee
• Milton Murayama
• Tahira Naqvi
• Il-Han New
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil
• Fae Myenne Ng
• Tran Thi Nga and Wendy Larson
• Kien Nguyen
• Qui Nguyen
• Nguyen Qui Duc
• Barbara Noda
• Yone Noguchi
• Sigrid Nunez
• Francis Naohiko Oka
• John Okada
• Gary Okihiro
• Daniel Okimoto
• Miné Okubo
• Shelley Ayame Nishimura Ota
• Induk Pahk
• Gary Pak, author of Children of a Fireland: A Novel (2004) and Language of the Geckos and Other Stories (2005)
• Ty Pak, author of Guilt Payment (1983) and Moonbay: Short Stories (1999)
• Therese Park
• Andrew X. Pham
• Aimee Phan
• Lee Yan Phou
• A.K. Ramanujan
• Bino Realuyo
• Rishi Reddi
• Patsy Sumi Saiki
• Bienvenido Santos
• Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo
• Allen Say
• Theary Seng
• Jon Shirota
• Linda Ching Sledge
• Monica Sone, autobiographer
• Cathy Song
• Dao Strom
• Etsu Inaki Sugimoto
• Arthur Sze
• Mai-Mai Sze

T-Z

• Eileen Tabios
• Ronald Takaki (UC Berkeley history professor)
• Shizuyu Takashima
• Kathleen Tamagawa
• Amy Tan (novelist)
• Ronald Tanaka
• Hanama Tasaki
• Eleanor Wong Telemaque
• Su Tong, a.k.a. Tong Su, T°ung Su
• Tim Toyama
• Barbara Tran
• Tran Van Dinh
• Monique Truong
• Kitty Tsui
• Gail Tsukiyama
• Yoshiko Uchida
• Loung Ung*Jose Garcia Villa
• David Rafael Wang
• Onoto Watanna, a.k.a. Winnifred Eaton
• Katherine Wei
• Yung Wing
• Jade Snow Wong
• May Wong
• Nellie Wong
• Raymond K. Wong
• Shawn Wong
• Su-ling Wong
• Merle Woo
• K.C. Wu
• Mitsuye Yamada
• Hisaye Yamamoto
• Lois-Ann Yamanaka
• Wakako Yamauchi
• John Yau
• Chiang Yee
• Chun-chan Yeh
• Liang Yen
• Tan Yun (Adet Lin)
• Laurence Yep
• Jim Yoshida and Bill Hosokawa
• Nasim Yousaf
• Judy Yung
• Fareed Zakaria
• Helen Zia (謝漢蘭)

Asian Canadian writers

• Kevin Chong
• Wayson Choy
• Ook Chung
• Adrienne Clarkson
• Joy Kogawa
• Larissa Lai
• Roy Miki
• Bharati Mukherjee, now a U.S. citizen
• Michael Ondaatje
• Ruth Ozeki
• Kerri Sakamoto
• Shyam Selvadurai
• Jaspreet Singh
• M.G. Vassanji
• Fred Wah
• Jean Yoon
• Jumel A. Andaleon
• Racquel O. Pagsuyoin

West Asian (Middle Eastern) writers

• Khalil Gibran
• Khaled Hosseini
• New York Pen League
• Edward Said

See also

• Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
• Before Columbus Foundation

External links

• Interviews with young Asian American writers

References