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Lan Samantha Chang's fiction has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Story and The Best American Short Stories 1994 .

Lan Samantha Chang's fiction has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Story and The Best American Short Stories 1994 and 1996. Chang is the author of the award-winning books Hunger and Inheritance, and the novel All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. She is the recipient of the Wallace Stegner and Truman Capote fellowships at Stanford University. She also received, from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a Teaching-Writing fellowship and a Michener-Copernicus fellowship. Her many awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, and she was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Lan Samantha Chang (張嵐; pinyin: Zhāng Lán), born 1965, is an American writer of novels and short stories. She is Professor of English at the University of Iowa and Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Samantha Chang was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, the daughter of Chinese parents who survived the World War II Japanese occupation of China and later emigrated to the United States. Chang has received fellowships from Stanford University (the Stegner Fellowship) and Princeton University

Lan Samantha Chang is a well-regarded writer who is also the director of the Iowa Writers Workshop

Lan Samantha Chang is a well-regarded writer who is also the director of the Iowa Writers Workshop. Her first novel INHERITANCE is the story of one family’s journey as they navigate the vicissitudes of 20th-century China, from the rule of the Emperors, through the first republic, to the second world war, to exile and communism. The story centers around two sisters, one fierce and strong who represents China, and the other quiet and fey, who represents Taiwan. As the story goes along, it graduall Lan Samantha Chang is a well-regarded writer who is also the director of the Iowa Writers Workshop.

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A timeless story of familial devotion undermined by deceit and passion and rebuilt by memory.

Spanning seven decades and set in China and America against a backdrop of political chaos and social upheaval, this arresting debut novel tells a timeless story of familial devotion undermined by deceit and passion and rebuilt by memory. In 1931, abandoned after their mother's suicide, the young Junan and her sister, Yinan, make a pact never to leave each other.

Lan Samantha Chang's fiction has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Story and The Best American Short Stories 1994 .

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The book's strength is its characters, who are driven by love, crafty relatives, and a hunger to know the past.

Lan Samantha Chang (Author, University of Iowa, Writers' Workshop). Inheritance traces the echo of betrayal through generations and explores the elusive nature of trust. The book's strength is its characters, who are driven by love, crafty relatives, and a hunger to know the past. A polished story, smooth as stone. It is most poignant as it delves into the follies that make us human. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Also by Lan Samantha Chang. All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost: A Novel. Hunger: A Novella and Stories. Chang received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2005 for Inheritance. Her essay "The Perfect Gift" appears in the anthology Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, published by W. Norton & Company in November 2013. Hunger: A Novella and Stories (1998). Inheritance: A Novel (2004). All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost: A Novel (2010). List of Asian American writers.