Rebecca F. Kuang
- 匡靈秀
- R. F. Kuang
- Sort Name
- Kuang, Rebecca F.
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Date of birth
- 1996-05-29
- Place of birth
- Guangzhou
Wikipedia
Rebecca F. Kuang (born May 29, 1996) is an American writer of mostly fantasy novels. Kuang was born in China and schooled in Texas before she studied Sinology at Cambridge and Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. In 2025, she was completing her PhD at Yale University.
Her 2022 novel Babel, or the Necessity of Violence was placed at the first spot on The New York Times Best Seller list, and won the Blackwell's Book of the Year for Fiction in 2022 along with the 2022 Nebula Award for Best Novel. In addition, Kuang has won the Compton Crook Award, the Crawford Award, and the 2020 Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and has been a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Kitschies, and British Fantasy awards for the 2018 novel The Poppy War. Elle magazine called Kuang "a prolific phenomenon".
Editions
| Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellowface | Hardcover | 9780008532772 | 2023 |
| Babel, or the Necessity of Violence | Hardcover | 9780063021426 | 2022-08-23 |
Relationships
- Rebecca F. Kuang wrote Yellowface
- Rebecca F. Kuang wrote Katabasis
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- Last Modified
- 2025-11-16