Nieh Hualing (1925–)

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Nieh Hualing (1925–)

Chinese-born novelist and short-story writer. Name variations: Hualing Engle. Born 1925 in Hupei, China; m. Paul Hamilton Engle (poet), 1971 (died 1991).

After Communist takeover of China, moved to Taiwan (1949), where she became literary editor of Free China; taught creative writing at National Taiwan University; settled in US (1964); founded International Writers' Project with Paul Engle at University of Iowa (1967); with husband, was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize (1975); wrote 22 nonfiction books and novels, including Emerald Cat (1959), The Lost Golden Bell (1961), A Little White Flower (1963), and Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China (1976) and Three Lives (2004), a collection of her memoirs.

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