| Nancy Yi | |
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| Born | August 26, 1993 |
| Occupation | Author, Writer |
| Notable work(s) | Sword Bird and Sword Quest |
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Nancy Yi Fan ( born August 26, 1993 Chinese: 范禕) is a Chinese American author. She currently resides with her parents in Gainesville, Florida. She was raised in Beijing, China and moved with her parents to the United States at the age of 7. She is best known as the best selling author of Swordbird, which she began writing it when she was 11 years old. She enjoys doing martial arts (swordplay) and taking care of her three pet birds.
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Fan began her book when she was ten and had lived in Syracuse, New York, United States for only three years. When she finished the manuscripts at age 12, she sold her novel to HarperCollins with a 50,000-copy first printing.[1] Birds, a lifelong passion of the author's, provided the inspiration for Swordbird. After awaking from a vivid dream about birds at war while simultaneously wrestling with her feelings about terrorism and September 11, Nancy wrote Swordbird as a way to convey her message of peace to the world.[2]
In 2008, HarperCollins released a prequel to Swordbird, called Sword Quest set 100 years before the time of Swordbird.