Lily Hsueh

Li Li, whose real name is Bao Lili, was born in Nanjing in 1948, with ancestral roots in He County, Anhui. She moved to Taiwan in 1949, graduated from the Department of History at National Taiwan University, and later studied at Purdue University. She now lives in California, USA, and devotes herself to writing. She has published more than forty works, including novels, essays, plays, and translations. Her representative works include Last Night Train, Kangaroo Man, River of Yesterday, and White Dove and Magnolia, and she has received the United Daily News Literature Award. Her writing spans literary journeys, nature observation, and personal essays, with a warm and delicate style that combines historical awareness with personal reflection. The collection includes six of her works, such as Half a Lifetime of Book Destinies: In Search of Century Literary Minds and Grasslands at the Edge of the World: In Search of Literature and Film, covering biography, essays, popular science, applied psychology, and examination preparation, showing the breadth of her writing.