Gene Luen Yang, DRAGON HOOPS

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Gene Luen Yang is the author, illustrator, and cartoonist of American Born Chinese, the first graphic novel ever to be nominated for the National Book Award and the American Library Association's Printz Award, which he won. Gene also won an Eisner Award for best graphic album as well as several other awards. Gene's two-volume graphic novel, Boxers & Saints, was also nominated for a National Book Award and won the LA Times Book Prize. He's written and illustrated many other graphic novels like Secret Coders and the Avatar series. Gene’s latest book Dragon Hoops is a nonfiction graphic novel that follows the ups and downs of a varsity men's basketball team. My son is such a fan of Gene’s books that I just had to let him join me for the interview. It was such a special treat! Gene and I chatted about creating and selling his first comic book at age five, why reading diversely is a great way to develop your brain, his important role as National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and why Gene believes graphic novels belong in the classroom. Make sure to listen to the end of the episode to catch Gene’s fantastic advice for anyone feeling the need to create art, especially now.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast.
0:12.1	Moms don't have time to read books.
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0:38.3	being separated from all the people we love, there's really no better time to take out a beautiful
0:42.2	piece of stationery and write a letter to somebody you miss. In fact, this is making me want to do this
0:46.9	right this very second. So check out dearanabelle.com, D-E-A-R-A-A-B-B-E-B-A-A-B-L.com, and the code is Zibi-15, Z-I-B-B-Y-15, and you'll get 15% off of all of this amazing stuff. So definitely go check it out. And thank you so much to dear Annabelle for being our sponsor. I'm so excited to be Skyping with Gene Lewin-Yang today on the day after his pub day, which is really exciting.
1:12.5	He's the author, illustrator, cartoonist of American-born Chinese, which was the first graphic
1:17.9	novel ever to be nominated for the National Book Award and the American Library Association's
1:22.7	Prince Award, which he won. He also won an Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album, New, and many other awards.
1:29.1	His two-volume graphic novel, Boxers and Saints, was nominated for a National Book Award also,
1:34.3	and won the LA Times Book Prize. He's written and illustrated many other graphic novels,
1:38.2	like Secret Coders and the Avatar series. His latest graphic novel, which just came out, is Dragon Hoops.
1:44.1	He also received the
1:45.1	MacArthur Fellowship, a graduate of UC Berkeley with a master's degree from California State
1:49.5	University, East Bay. Gene is a teacher currently through Hamline University's MFA in writing
1:55.0	for children and young adults. He currently lives in California with his four children and his wife.
1:59.8	Welcome, Gene. Thanks so much for coming on.
2:01.5	Mom's Don't have time to read books. Yeah, thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.
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