Geling Yan

Her first novel was published in 1985. She is the author of such novels as The Banquet Bug (published as The Uninvited in the UK) and The Lost Daughter of Happiness, as well as a story collection entitled White Snake and Other Stories. Several of Yan's works have been adapted for film, including Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl, which was directed by Joan Chen, and Siao Yu, directed by Sylvia Chang and screenplay co-written by Ang Lee. Zhang Yimou, the Chinese director of To Live and Raise the Red Lantern adapted her novella 13 Flowers of Nanjing to the screen as The Flowers of War, and his movie Coming Home was based on Yan's novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi.[6] She has worked on other scripts including a biography of Mei Lanfang, the Peking opera star, for Chinese director Chen Kaige.

• The Banquet Bug (written in English, published as The Uninvited in the UK)[7]
• The Lost Daughter of Happiness (tr. Cathy Silber, Chinese title Fusang 《扶桑》)[8]
• The Flowers of War (tr. Nicky Harman, Chinese title Jinling shisan chai 《金陵十三钗》)[9]
• Little Aunt Crane (tr. Esther Tyldesley, Chinese title Xiaoyi Duohe 《小姨多鶴》)[10]
• The Criminal Lu Yanshi (adapted into a movie, titled Coming Home)《陆犯焉识》

• 芳华（Youth） [11]

• The Landlady (tr. Lawrence A. Walker)[12]
• Disappointing Returns (tr. David Haysom)[13]
• White Snake and Other Stories (tr. Lawrence A. Walker)[14]

She is a member of the Hollywood Writer's Guild of America, the Writer's Association of China, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Yan holds a bachelor's degree in literature from Wuhan University, and a Master's in Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago.