brought many Chinese students to the campus. In 2006, Yu received an honorary doctorate from Middlebury College. Personal life Yu was married to physics professor Chih Ree Sun, with whom she had three children: daughters Lena Sun, Eugene Sun, and Anna Sun. After their divorce, Yu married University at Albany president Vincent O'Leary. After O'Leary's retirement, they moved to San Mateo in 1997. They moved to Gaithersburg, Maryland in 2006. Death Yu died of respiratory failure brought on by COVID-19 in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on 30 April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Maryland. Bibliography She is the author of over thirty novels, short stories, essays, and translations. 杨子江头几多愁, /Yangzi jiang tou ji duo chou (The Sorrow at the End of the Yangtze River) 1956 夢回靑河/ Meng hui qing he (Dreaming of the Green River) 1963 歸 / Gui, (Homecoming) 1963 也是秋天 / Ye shi qiu tian, (Autumn Again) 1963 变／Bian, (Change), 1966 雪地上的星星 / Xue di shang de xing xing, (Stars on a Snowy Night) 1966 又見棕櫚, 又見棕櫚 / You jian zong lü, you jian zong lü, (Again the Palm Trees) 1967 柳家莊上/ Liu jia zhuang shang, (In Liu Village) 1968 (also translated to English) 1968 燄/ Yan, (The Flame) 1969 白駒集 / Bai ju ji, (The White Colt) 1969 會場現行記 / Huichang xianxin ji, (When the Scholars Meet) 1972 考验/ Kao yan, (The Task) 1974 新中國的 女性／Xin zhong guo de nu xin, (Portraits of Seven Women in China) 1978 雖在西双版妠 /Sui zai xi shuang ban na, (Who is in Xi Shuang Ban Na) 1978 傅家的兒女們/ Fu jia de er nu men (The Fu Family) 1978 記得當年來水城 /Ji de dang nian lai shui cheng, (Remembering that Year in Buffalo) 1980 尋 / Xun, (The Search) 1986 相見欢／ Xian jian huan 1989 親盡／ Qin Jin, 1989 一個天使的沈淪/ Yi ge tianshi di chenglun, 1996 屏風後的女人/ Ping feng hou de nu ren (The Woman Behind the Partition) 1998 別西冷莊園/ Bie xiling zhuang yuan (Leaving Slingerlands), 2000 在离去和道別 之間／ Zai li qu he daobie zijian(Between Parting and Goodbye) 2002 飄零何處歸 /Piao ling he chu gui, 2008 彼岸/ Bi an, (The Other Shore) 2009 秋山又几种, Qiu Shan you ji zhong, 2009 小三子， 回家吧, /Xiao sanzi, hui jia ba (Come Home Xin Mei) 2010 飄零何處歸 黄昏．廊裡的女人/ Huang hun lang li de nü ren (Two Women Reminiscing) 2015 花開有時/ Hua kai shi (A Time to Bloom) 2016 林曼/ Lin man, 2017 意想不到的結局, Yisi bu dao de jie