Henry Chang

Biography

Henry Chang is a New Yorker, a native son of Chinatown and the Lower East Side. His poems have appeared in the seminal Yellow Pearl anthology, and in Gangs In New York’s Chinatown. He has written for Bridge Magazine, and his fiction has appeared in On A Bed Of Rice and in the NuyorAsian Anthology. His debut novel Chinatown Beat garnered high praise from the New York Times Book Review, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, among others.

Henry Chang is a graduate of CCNY (City College of New York). He has been a lighting consultant, and a Security Director for major hotels, commercial properties, and retail businesses in Manhattan.

He resides in the Chinatown area and has finished the third book of his ‘Chinatown Trilogy’, "RED JADE", which will be available Fall 2010. His second book, “Year of the Dog” was published Fall 2008.

REPRESENTATION:

Adkins & Phillips Agency, Ltd.
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Rye, New York, 10580
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Selected Works

Mystery/Crime Fiction
Chinatown Beat
"For readers who relish noir suspense, it doesn’t get any better than this stunning novel."
--The Boston Globe review
Year of the Dog
"A worthy series. Detective Jack Yu is a fellow whose adventures should be worth following, and now takes us even further beneath the surface... "
RED JADE
Red Jade
A puzzling web of links to the criminal underworld reveal themselves, as NYPD Detective Jack Yu's investigation takes him across the country to another Chinatown, this one in Seattle. Jack tracks a cold-blooded Chinese-American gangster and a mysterious Hong Kong femme fatale.