Adeline Yen Mah
Adeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin, China. She lived in Shanghai as a child and from shelter to shelter until settling down in a Hong Kong boarding school at age 11. At age 14, she won an international playwriting competition that convinced her emotionally distant father to allow her to study abroad. Although she had a passion for writing, she attended London Hospital Medical School, graduated as a physician and established a thriving medical practice in California.
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