Ties that Bind, Ties that Break - About the Author

TITLE: TIES THAT BIND, TIES THAT BREAK.

AUTHOR: LENSEY NAMIOKA.

YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 1999

NUMBER OF PAGES: 154

EDITORIAL HOUSE:  Dell Laurel-Leaf. A division of Random House, Inc.

Lensey Namioka was born the fourteenth of June in 1929 in Beijing, China. Her father was Yuenren Chao, an important linguist, poet and scholar and her mother was Buwei Yang Chao, a physician and writer who was one of the first women to practice Western medicine in the Asian country. After the Japanese invasion in 1937. She and her family moved to the United States. There, she studied at Radcliffe College and the University of California, where she met Isaac Namioka, a Japanese student with whom she got married and later in the sixties she moved to New York City. She is the author of many popular books like April and the Dragon Lady (1994) a nominee at the Utah Young Adult’s Book Awards, Ties that Bind, Ties that Break (1999) which awarded a place among one of the American Library Association's 10 Best Books for Young People, Yang the Eldest and His Odd Jobs (2000), Half and Half (2003), Mismatch (2006). Nowadays, she lives in Seattle (Washington) with her husband, with whom she had two daughters: Aki and Michi Namioka.