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American novelist

Ruthanne Lum McCunn (Chinese: 林露德; pinyin: Lín Lùdé) (néeDrysdale;^[1] born February 21, ^[2]) is an American novelist and editor of Chinese and Scottish descent.^[3]

Early life

Ruthanne Lum McCunn was born as Roxey Drysdale on February 21, , in Chinatown, San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong.^[4] Her father was a Scottish American merchant seaman from Idaho, and her mother was from Hong Kong.

Her parents met in the late s when her mother came to San Francisco with a cousin to visit the World's Fair, where she met Ruthanne's father, fell in love with him and got married. Interracial marriage was illegal in California at the time so they drove to Washington, where a minister, who was a friend of her father's family, married them. For the duration of World War II, they lived in San Francisco's Chinatown.

In , her mother returned to Hong Kong with Ruthanne and her sister, where they lived Ruthanne Lum McCunn - Wikipedia MIGIQ