Fan Wu

Fan Wu(吴帆) is a Chinese-American novelist.

Fan Wu grew up on a state-run farm in southern China where her parents were exiled during the Cultural Revolution.She came to the United States for graduate studies at Stanford University in 1997, began working at Yahoo! Inc. in 1999, and began to write in 2002. In 2007, she left her technology job to devote herself to writing. She currently resides in northern California.

She also writes short stories and her writing has appeared in Granta, The Missouri Review, Asia Literary Review, Ploughshares. She is currently working on her third novel and a short story collection. She writes in both English and Chinese.

• February Flowers. Simon & Schuster. 2007. ISBN 978-1-4165-4943-7.has been translated into eight languages and sold in more than fifteen countries
• Beautiful as Yesterday. Simon & Schuster. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4165-9889-3.