Nancy Yi Fan

Nancy Yi
Born	August 26, 1993 (1993-08-26) (age 18)
Occupation	Author, Writer
Notable work(s)	Sword Bird and Sword Quest
[Biography Biography]

Nancy Yi Fan ( born August 26, 1993 Chinese: 范禕) is a Chinese American author. She currently resides with her parents in Gainesville, Florida. She was raised in Beijing, China and moved with her parents to the United States at the age of 7. She is best known as the best selling author of Swordbird, which she began writing it when she was 11 years old.^{[clarification needed]} She enjoys doing martial arts (swordplay) and taking care of her three pet birds.

Writing career

Swordbird

Fan began her book when she was ten^{[clarification needed]} and had lived in Syracuse, New York, United States for only three years. When she finished the manuscripts at age 12, she sold her novel to HarperCollins with a 50,000-copy first printing.^[1] Birds, a lifelong passion of the author's, provided the inspiration for Swordbird. After awaking from a vivid dream about birds at war while simultaneously wrestling with her feelings about terrorism and September 11, Nancy wrote Swordbird as a way to convey her message of peace to the world.^[2]

Sword Quest

In 2008, HarperCollins released a prequel to Swordbird, called Sword Quest set 100 years before the time of Swordbird.

References

1. ^ "Saga by 13-Year-Old Author Takes Wing", Publishers Weekly, 14 December 2006, http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6399942.html?nid=2788 ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "Flight of fantasy", Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/01/27/smnancy27.xml&page=2, retrieved 2011 November 09 

External links

• "Swordbird homepage". http://www.swordbird.googlepages.com/index.htm. Retrieved 2011 November 09. 

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Name	Fan, Nancy Yi
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Date of birth	August 26, 1993
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