Who Smashed Hollywood Barriers with Gung Fu?: Bruce Lee

Teresa Robeson (she/her) is the APALA Picture Book Award–winning author of Queen of Physics, which also received an ILA Nonfiction Picture Book Honor and was a NCTE Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Recommended Book. Her other work includes Two Bicycles in Beijing, Who Is Tibet’s Exiled Leader? The 14th Dalai Lama, and Clouds in Space. Teresa was born in Hong Kong and, like Bruce Lee, grew up there. Unlike Bruce Lee, she is not very good at gung fu, but she could fend off a mean rooster on her family’s mini-farm if she had to. She lives in Southern Indiana. Visit her online at teresarobeson.com. Ryan Inzana (he/him) is an illustrator/concept designer/animator whose work has appeared in various media all over the world. Ryan’s comics have been inducted into the Library of Congress’s permanent collection of art and his graphic novel Ichiro earned an Eisner nomination as well as an Asian American/Pacific Islander Honor Award for YA literature. He lives in central New Jersey, and you can find him online at ryaninzana.com.