![]() ![]() Weaving Hawaiian history from the eighteenth century to modern times into her story, Davenport focuses on the women of the family and their captivating adventures. Native Hawaiian author Kiana Davenport is beloved for her novel Shark Dialogues, a family saga detailing the lives of seven Hawaiian generations. He is one of the members of President Joseph R. Gawande also founded CIC Health, which works to scale up COVID-19 testing and vaccine distribution nationally. His #1 New York Times bestseller The Checklist Manifesto offers anecdotal evidence of times when the simple checklist has saved lives and improved medical outcomes. Gawande explores heavy topics like hospice care and death, as well as the imperfect science that is medicine. Inspiring surgeon Atul Gawande is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of several books: Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science, Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Lauded for its themes of friendship, self-acceptance, teamwork, and courage, the book won the 2018 Newbery Medal and is being adapted by Netflix. The story incorporates Filipino folktales. But she’s most celebrated as the author of Hello, Universe, a novel told from the points-of-view of four children after one of them gets stuck in a well. Kelly received the 2016 Golden Kite Honor Award for this book that follows the life of a Beatles-loving twelve-year-old named Apple. I was teased and bullied and even hid out in the library for a while (just like Apple).” ![]() “I was embarrassed of my Filipino heritage and resented my mother. “Like Apple, I was the only Asian in my school,” Kelly writes on her website. ![]() Erin Entrada Kelly (1977–)Įrin Entrada Kelly’s children’s books weave Filipino American heritage and Asian American struggles into their themes. Learn about their work below, from a lighthearted young adult series to a Pulitzer Prize–winning espionage tale set in South Vietnam to a children’s book about struggling to belong to a satirical novel about being cast as the “Generic Asian Man” in Hollywood. These authors have expanded the scope of Asian American literature through their writing. These novels, poems, essays, articles, memoirs, and nonfiction books are part of a pan-Asian and Pacific Islander literary movement, while also being representative of authors’ individual experiences as writers and members of their respective communities. Asian American Pacific Islander authors have created an exhilarating modern literary canon, penning literature at once wholly American and proudly representative of their many strands of heritage. ![]()
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