Yu Lihua a Chinese-American writer who authored at least 45 works of fiction died on On 1 May 2020 due to COVID-19 in Washington.
Yu Lihua was born in Shanghai and went to university in Taiwan, taking history at National Taiwan University. Then she went to the United States to do a graduate degree in journalism at UCLA and then to teach Chinese literature in the Department of Comparative University at the State University of New York.
Her work was published both in English and in Chinese.