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About Gene Yang Gene Yang has been teaching since 1998 and cartooning professionally since 1996. Gene has taught Computer Science, Computer Applications, Technology for Business, Computer Art, Algebra, and Algebra 2/Trigonometry at a Catholic high school in Oakland, California. He is currently serving as his school's Director of Information Services. In 1997, Gene's first comic book, Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks, garnered a Xeric Grant, a prestigious comics industry award. Since then he has been published by Image Comics,Pauline Books and Media, and Slave Labor Graphics. His most recent work, American Born Chinese, was released as a full-color graphic novel in Fall 2006 by First Second Books. American Born Chinese is the first graphic novel to receive a National Book Award nomination and the first graphic novel to win the American Library Association's Printz Award. Gene earned his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a minor in Creative Writing from the University of California, Berkeley and Master's degree in Education at California State University, Hayward. This site and Factoring with Mr. Yang were his final project for his Master's.
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