Lensey namioka autobiography
Lensey Namioka (née Chao) is a Chinese-born American writer of books for young adults and children....
Namioka was born in Beijing, the daughter of linguist Yuenren Chao and physician Buwei Yang Chao.
Lensey Namioka
Chinese-born American writer (born )
Lensey Namioka (néeChao) (simplified Chinese: 赵来思; traditional Chinese: 趙來思; pinyin: Zhào Láisī or simplified Chinese: 赵莱痕思媚; traditional Chinese: 趙萊痕思媚; pinyin: Zhào Lénsèi;[1][2] born June 14, ) is a Chinese-born American writer of books for young adults and children.
She writes about China and Chinese American families, as well as Japan, her husband's native country.
Early life and education
Lensey Chao attended Radcliffe College and the University of California, Berkeley, where her father was a professor of Asian Studies, to study mathematics.
Here she met and married Isaac Namioka, a fellow graduate student who was born in Japan. Namioka ended up earning a bachelor's and a master's degree in math.[3]
Origin of her first name
Lensey Namioka is the only Chinese person known to have the first name "Lensey".
Her name has an especially unusual property fo