Background
Annette White-Parks was born on September 5, 1935, in John Day, Oregon, United States. She is the daughter of Emmet Lavelle White and Julia Eppa Leslie.
Sacramento State University
Pullman, Washington, United States
Washington State University
Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, United States
University of Wisconsin
Sacramento State University
Pullman, Washington, United States
Washington State University
Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, United States
University of Wisconsin
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1980
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1994
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The first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American fiction writer portrays a gifted, unsung woman and a world rarely seen in anything other than stereotypes. The eldest daughter of a Chinese mother and British father, Edith Maude Eaton was born in England in 1865. Her family moved to Quebec in the early 1870s; she was removed from school at age ten to help support her parents and twelve siblings. In the 1880s and 1890s she worked as a stenographer, journalist, and fiction writer in Montreal, often writing under the name she has come to be known by, Sui Sin Far (Water Lily). She lived briefly in Jamaica and then, from 1898 to 1912, in the United States. Today Sui Sin Far is finally being rediscovered as part of American literature and history. She presented portraits of turn-of-the-century Chinese with an insider's sympathy. She gave voice to Chinese American women and children, breaking the stereotypes of silence, invisibility, and "bachelor society."
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1995
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Set amidst the world of ocean and redwoods that opened its windows to travelers up California's North Coast 30 years ago, Bridge Work is the story of the wealth of characters who found their way here in the 1960's and early 70's.
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Annette White-Parks was born on September 5, 1935, in John Day, Oregon, United States. She is the daughter of Emmet Lavelle White and Julia Eppa Leslie.
White-Parks graduated from Sacramento State University in 1967. Two years later she received her Master of Arts degree from it and in 1991 she obtained her doctorate from Washington State University.
White-Parks started her career as an instructor at Sacramento State University in 1969. Three years later she went to Mendocino College in Ukiah, California, where she worked for 9 years. Since 1979, she also became a director of the Women's Writers Project and started the career of a freelance writer.
Since 1991, White-Parks worked as a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin. After her retirement, he holds the position of Professor Emeritus of English there and works as a freelance writer.
Annette White-Parks is best known in the academic world for her biography of the nineteenth-century Chinese-Canadian female author Sui Sin Far, also known as Edith Maude Eaton, as well as of other women writers, and in multiculturalism. White-Parks was instrumental in writing, editing, or helping with small press projects such as 1976’s When Grownups Were Children and "Water Coming Down Place" A History of Gualala, Mendocino. She has also contributed poetry to periodicals. Since her focus has become more scholarly, however, White-Parks has helped Elizabeth Ammons to edit Tricksterism in American Literature at the Turn-of-the-Century: A Multicultural Perspective, chaired the editorial board which published A Gathering of Voices on the Asian American Experience, and helped Amy Ling edit a collection of Far’s literary works, Mrs Spring Fragrance and Other Writings by Sui Sin Far.
During her career, she has received several academic scholarships, fellowships, and grants.
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1995White-Parks is a member of the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures, Modern Language Association, Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States, Western Literature Association, Friends of International Students, Coalition Against Poverty and Phi Kappa Phi.
White-Parks married Bernard Wilbur Parks Jr. on December 17, 1972. The couple has 2 children: Christine Annette Odom and Kenneth Martin Jones.
