He wrote “The Flower Drum Song” while renting a room above a Filipino nightclub in San Francisco’s Chinatown and working as an editor and columnist for one of the city’s Chinese-language newspapers. The three simplified Mr. Lee’s narrative, and the musical comedy “Flower Drum Song” enjoyed a two-year run on Broadway, starting in 1958. Butterfly.”Hwang had long called the film version of Mr. Lee’s novel a guilty pleasure. Hwang was also central to the 2002 reissue of Mr. Lee’s novel by Penguin Books. After “The Flower Drum Song,” Mr. Lee published 10 other novels and a collection of short stories, many of which were translated into Chinese from English.

Source: Washington Post February 03, 2019 22:50 UTC