![]() Chinese Cinderella was her second novel, receiving the award from the Children’s Literature Council of Southern California in 2000 for Compelling Autobiography and Lamplighter’s Award from National Christian School Association in June 2002 for Contribution to Exceptional Children’s Literature. Yen Mah decided to leave her medical practice to write full time. ![]() Although she had a passion for writing, she attended London Hospital Medical School, graduated as a physician and established a thriving medical practice in California.Īfter the commercial success of her first novel, Falling Leaves, in 1997, Mrs. At age 14, she won an international playwriting competition that convinced her emotionally distant father to allow her to study abroad. She lived in Shanghai as a child and from shelter to shelter until settling down in a Hong Kong boarding school at age 11. ![]() Adeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin, China. ![]()
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