Word: jennings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China Boy ($19.95) is this season's major fiction offering from Dutton, which paid the novice writer an advance of nearly $100,000 and ordered a first printing of 75,000 copies. Houghton Mifflin, which had ordered 11,000 copies of Gish Jen's Typical American ($19.95), increased the run by 5,000 as prepublication excitement grew for this engaging tale of one immigrant family's pursuit of the American Dream. Two houses fought to publish Pangs of Love (Knopf; $19), Louie's sharp and quirky collection of short stories...
...nearly doubled, from 3.5 million to 6.9 million, over the past decade. But editors say it also reflects the fact that more Asian Americans are writing -- and writing good books. "They're second generation, and they're better educated and ready to tell about their experiences," says Seymour Lawrence, Jen's publisher...
...When there is a great success like Amy Tan's book, everyone is out there looking for his or her own Amy Tan," says Shannon Ravenel, the recently retired editor of the annual collection of The Best American Short Stories. Louie, 36, predicts that "if Gus Lee or Gish Jen don't come through with big sales, then the next wave of interest in Asian- American writers may not come for another 15 years." That would be a shame, because each of these authors possesses the kind of fresh and original voice that marks a genuine talent...
...Jen works the margins too. The Chang family in Typical American are devoted baseball fans who call themselves the Chang-kees in honor of their favorite team, but "the one time they went to an actual game, people had called them names and told them to go back to their laundry." Jen, 35, who grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y., and graduated from Harvard, is especially intrigued by how outsiders move from the margins into the mainstream...
...deLone (HARVARD) d. Jen Kenas (Cornell), 6-4, 6-0; 2. Jamie Henikoff (H) d. Michelle Deast (C), 6-1, 6-4; 3. Wan Chen (C) d. Jen Minkus (H), 6-3, 7-5; 4. Erika Elmuts (H) d. Judy Beckenbach (C), 6-1, 6-4; 5. Rachel Pollock (H) d. Carol Katz (C), 6-0, 6-2; 6. Liza Parker (H) d. Chris McKennon...