marriage fell apart. In 1999, Min married teacher and writer Lloyd Lofthouse. She filed for divorce in 2014, and it was finalized in 2015. Min graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Fine Arts. Bibliography Memoirs Red Azalea (Pantheon Books, 1994, ; a The New York Times Notable Book); Random House Digital, Inc., 2011, The Cooked Seed: A Memoir. Bloomsbury USA, May 7, 2013, Fiction Katherine Hamish Hamilton, 1995, Becoming Madame Mao (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin. .). Based on the life of Jiang Qing, the last wife of Mao Zedong. Empress Orchid Bloomsbury Publishing Incorporated, 2004, The Last Empress (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2007, ). Based on the life of Empress Dowager Cixi, the late 19th and early 20th century Qing dynasty Empress Dowager. Pearl of China: A Novel. Bloomsbury Publishing, April 9, 2010, . Inspired by the life of Pearl S. Buck as a girl and young woman in China. References External links Official website 1957 births Living people American writers of Chinese descent Chinese historical novelists Actresses from Shanghai Writers from Shanghai Chinese emigrants to the United States Chinese women writers American women writers School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni Red Guards