Lloyd Lofthouse
- Location
- Bay Area, California, United States
- Birthday
- August 14
- Bio
- Lloyd Lofthouse is the author of ‘My Splendid Concubine’. He earned a BA in journalism after fighting in Vietnam as a U. S. Marine. He then taught English and journalism in the public schools by day and for a time worked as a maitre d' in a multimillion-dollar nightclub by night. He now lives near San Francisco with his wife, and they have a second home in Shanghai, China. His first novel, ‘My Splendid Concubine’, won an honorable mention in fiction from the 2008 London Book Festival; another honorable mention in general fiction from the 2009 San Francisco Book Festival and a third honorable mention in fiction at the 2009 Hollywood Book Festival. His short story, ‘A Night at the Well of Purity’, was a finalist for the 2007 Chicago Literary Awards.
MY RECENT POSTS
- China in Transition, Part
Three
October 22, 2009 03:17PM - China in Transition, Part Two
October 15, 2009 03:05PM - China in Transition, Part One
in a Series
October 06, 2009 06:48PM - Minority Treatment in China,
Part 4
October 02, 2009 10:55PM - Minority Treatment in China,
Part 3
September 24, 2009 10:09PM
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"Is
it finally time after millions
of years of history that
we
co…”
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"Is
it finally time after millions
of years of history that
we
co…”
May 09, 2011 02:54PM - “Agreed, Mao was better
than Stalin and Hitler, but
according
to my wife, not by
m…”
October 22, 2009 04:44PM - “Although the current
government in China can still
be
repressive, they work
harde…”
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stuff". I don't see the
government
controlled
media…”
September 04, 2009 12:00PM
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