Moying Li Translator & Author

Moying Li grew up in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution, when her father, a prominent screenwriter, was sentenced to hard labor. After attending Swarthmore College, Moying earned a Ph. D from Boston University. Her first book, Beacon Hill: The Life & Times of a Neighborhood, won the Julia Ward Howe Award. Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China during the Cultural Revolution, a memoir, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and named an Editor's Choice by The New York Times Book Review.