BIO
of Linda Ty-Casper:
Linda
Ty-Casper is a highly-acclaimed Filipino writer. She was born as Belinda Ty in
Malabon, Philippines in 1931. Her father worked in the Philippine National
Railways; her mother was a school teacher. It was her grandmother who told her
stories about the Philippine struggle for independence, a topic she picked up
in her novels. She has law degrees from the University of the Philippines and
Harvard. However, erroneous and biased statements in books at Widener Library
converted her into an advocate, through faithfully researched historical
fiction, of Filipino's right to self-definition/determination.
Her
numerous books are generally historical fiction. The Peninsulares centers
on eighteenth-century Manila; The Three-Cornered Sun written on a
Radcliffe Institute grant, deals with the 1896 Revolution; and Ten Thousand
Seeds, the start of the Philippine American War. Contemporary events,
including martial law years, appear in Dread Empire, Hazards of Distance,
Fortress in the Plaza, Awaiting Trespass, Wings of Stone, A Small Party in a
Garden, and DreamEden.
Her
stories, collected in Transparent Sun, The Secret Runner, and Common
Continent, originally appeared in magazines such as Antioch Review, The
Asia Magazine, Windsor Review, Hawaii Review, and Triquarterly. One short
story was included in The Best American Short Stories of 1987 Honor Roll.
She has
held grants from the Djerassi Foundation, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
and the Wheatland Foundation. She and her husband, (literary critic and
professor emeritus of Boston College) Leonard Casper, reside in Massachusetts.
They have two daughters.
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