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Wayson Choy, the author of The Jade Peony, was born in Vancouver in 1939. He was adopted into to working parents’ family. His father, a ship’s cook, was often away, and his mother, who worked in a sausage factory, used to leave him in the care of other families.
Late 1950s and early 1960s
1962
~ moved to Toronto
~ published a short story "The Sound of Waves"
~ received The Best American Short Stories Award
1967
~ professor of Humber College
~ a faculty member of the Humber School for writers
1977
~ published The Jade Peony as a short story which is included in
a more than twenty anthologies
1994
~ Douglas & McIntyre contracted Choy to expanded on The Jade
Peony
1995
~ the novel The Jade Peony appeared
~ Co-winner of Ontario’s Trillium Book Award
1996 ~ Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award
1998 ~ writing the sequel to his best selling book The Jade Peony
1999 ~ Choy is currently working on a new book called Paper Shadows, and is about growing up in Vancouver's Chinatown.
