ANCHEE MIN

Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957 and sent to a rural labour collective at seventeen, where she was later recruited to work as an actress for the Shanghai Film Studio. She moved to the United States in 1984 and, teaching herself English partly by watching Sesame Street, wrote her internationally bestselling memoir Red Azalea, which won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award and was named a New York Times Notable Book. The Cooked Seed continues that memoir, tracing her years of struggle and eventual rootedness in America. In addition to her memoirs she has published several novels, and is also a painter, photographer, and musician.