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Katie Gee Salisbury

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I'm the author of Not Your China Doll, a new biography of Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star. The idea for this book has lived in my head for more than a decade, so I'm overjoyed that it's finally completed and forthcoming from Dutton in March 2024!

My work has appeared in the New York Times, MSNBC, Vanity Fair, The Ringer, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and elsewhere. I was a finalist for the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in 2021 and I gave the TED Talk “As American as Chop Suey.” I also write the newsletter Half-Caste Woman.

A fifth-generation Chinese American who hails from Southern California, I've now lived in NYC for going on 15 years—though most days I'm still California dreamin'. Not Your China Doll is my ...more

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Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong

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The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference

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