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Fae Myenne Ng is an American novelist and short story writer.
As a first generation Chinese-American author, Fae Myenne Ng is used to hard work.

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Fae Myenne Ng

With the publication of Bone (Hyperion, 1993), an unsparing look into the lives of three daughters of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Fae Myenne Ng seemed to burst upon the literary scene. In reality, she had been steadily refining her writing for almost two decades, and had been crafting Bone for ten years.

Ms. Ng knew her subject first hand: a Cantonese-speaking daughter of Chinese immigrants, she grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown; her father was a merchant seaman, and her mother, a seamstress. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 1978) and Columbia University (M.F.A., 1984), she worked as a waitress and occasionally as a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz and Berkeley in order to support her writing. In the early years of her career she had had some success in publishing stories, including “A Red Sweater,” which won a Pushcart Prize in 1987, and her talents had earned her a D. H. Lawrence Fellowship (1987), and Fellowships from Radcliffe College’s Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute (1988) and the N

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All Stories Float Ashore: Fae Myenne Ng on the Chinese Titanic Poet-Sailor Deportee

When my seafaring father told me about the Chinese sailors who jumped from the Titanic, he added with vigor, “I’d have jumped too.”

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The two mariners who leapt into the icy Atlantic–a groom en route to his nuptials in Cleveland and his best man–perish, but their seventeen-year-old friend grabs hold of a plank and drifts; he’ll be the last man pulled out of the ocean. The survivor, Fong Wing Sun, gave us the iconic image of a man afloat, his likeness eventually altered to a woman’s form, the plank widened to a door, this image endlessly recycled for that film.

All 706 survivors are taken to New York on the rescue ship RMS Carpathia, but the six surviving Chinese are forbidden to disembark. America’s Exclusion Act was at full mast; at dawn the Chinese sailors are deported. Five vanish. Only Fong Wing Sun is tracked as working on Cuban banana ships. In 1920, he enters the States, possibly—as my own seaman Uncle did—by jumping ship.

He settles in

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Fae Myenne Ng

American writer

Fae Myenne Ng (born December 2,^[1] 1956 in San Francisco) is an American novelist and short story writer.

She is a first-generation Chinese American author whose debut novelBone told the story of three Chinese American daughters growing up in her real childhood hometown of San Francisco Chinatown.^[2] Her work has received support from the American Academy of Arts & Letters' Rome Prize, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers' Award, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lannan Foundation, and The Radcliffe Institute.^[3] She has held residencies at Yaddo, McDowell, and the Djerassi Foundation.^[4]

Life

She is the daughter of seamstress and a laborer, who immigrated from Guangzhou, China.^[5] She attended the University of California, Berkeley, and received her M.F.A. at Columbia University. Ng has supported herself by working as a waitress and at other temporary jobs. She teaches UC Berkeley AAADS 20C.^[6]

Her short stories have appeared in The American Voice, Caly