Dori Jones Yang
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Dori Jones Yang is an American author and journalist specializing in topics related to China.[1]
Dori Jones Yang's most widely read book is Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time (1997),[2] co-authored with Howard Schultz, chairman and CEO of Starbucks. The book was translated into ten languages and reached several bestseller lists.[3]
In 2000, she wrote a book for children called The Secret Voice of Gina Zhang,[4] which won the Pleasant T. Rowland Prize for Fiction for Girls and the Skipping Stones Honor Award for multicultural and international books in 2001.[5]
Her historical novel, Daughter of Xanadu,[6] was published by Random House/Delacorte Press[7] in January 2011. Is set in the time of Marco Polo and Khubilai Khan.
Her second children's book, The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball,[8] won the 2017 Freeman Book Award for books about Asia in the young adult/high school literature category.[9] It also won five other awards.[10]
Her 2020 memoir, When the Red Gates Opened:[11] A Memoir of China's Reawakening, documents her eight years as a Business Week correspondent covering China from 1982 to 1990.
