National Ambassador Gene Luen Yang to Deliver Keynote at the 2017 One Book Two Book Festival
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Yang is the Printz Award winning author of American Born Chinese. A former computer science teacher, he has taught writing in Hamline University’s MFA program since 2012.
Yang is a graphic novelist and cartoonist whose work for young adults demonstrates the potential of comics to broaden our understanding of diverse cultures and people. (The Gazette)