Author Reading Series
At the Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library
Fifth and Flower streets in Downtown Los Angeles
Parking, 524 S. Flower, adjacent to Library. $5.65 flat rate after 5 p.m.
Free, Reservations suggested. 213.228.7025

Two Novelists:
Kyoko Mori, reading and discussing Stone Field, True Arrow
Anchee Min, reading and discussing Becoming Madame Mao

Kyoko Mori is the author of two novels for young readers, One Bird and Shizuko’s Daughter, which was chosen as a Best Young Children’s Book by the New York Times, and two memoirs for adults, Polite Lies and The Dream of Water. Born in Kobe, Japan, Mori settled in Wisconsin as a teenager and currently teaches creative writing at Harvard University. Stone Field, True Arrow, her magnificent debut in adult fiction, tells the story of a Japanese American weaver, her father’s death, and the passionate reawakening that follows.  

Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where after a number of years, a talent scout recruited her for Madame Mao’s Shanghai Film Studio. She came to the United States in 1984 and attended the Art Institute of Chicago. Her memoir, Red Azalea, was an international bestseller. Becoming Madame Mao, a powerful tale of betrayal and survival, is a finely nuanced portrait of one of the most fascinating women of the twentieth century.

This event is co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Public Library and the Japanese American National Museum. National Museum members will receive a 10% discount on authors’ books sold at the event, and must show membership card upon purchase.