Nancy Yi Fan
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Nancy Yi Fan (born August 26, 1993 {{zh|t=范禕}}) is a Chinese American author who is best known for writing a series that currently consists of the novels Swordbird, Sword Quest, and Sword Mountain.
Biography
Fan was born in Beijing, China. At the age of 7, she moved with her parents to Syracuse, New York. She started writing her first novel 3 years later, and completed the manuscript within a year. Fan's book became a New York Times Bestseller, and she was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show as one of the world's smartest kids. She then began writing Sword Quest, a prequel to Swordbird, and published it two years later. Her third book, Sword Mountain, was released in July 2012.
Career
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Fan's novel was inspired by her lifelong love for birds. After awaking from a vivid dream about birds at war while simultaneously wrestling with her feelings about terrorism and the September 11th Attacks, Fan wrote Swordbird as a way to convey a message of peace to the world.{{Citation
|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/01/27/smnancy27.xml&page=2
|title=Flight of fantasy
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|accessdate=2011-11-09
}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} At the age of eleven, Fan began writing a manuscript for her story, which she finished a year later. She emailed her manuscript to the CEO of HarperCollins, which led to the novel's 50,000-copy first printing.{{Citation|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6399942.html?nid=2788 |title=Saga by 13-Year-Old Author Takes Wing |date=14 December 2006 |journal=Publishers Weekly |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070128205118/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6399942.html?nid=2788 |archivedate=January 28, 2007 }}
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In 2008, HarperCollins released Sword Quest, a prequel set 100 years before the time of Swordbird.
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The third novel in Fan's series was set to be released in July 2012, by HarperCollins.
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Category:American writers of Chinese descent
Category:Chinese emigrants to the United States
Category:American child writers