One of those events is an abuse allegation against the famous coach, Mike Phelps. In the 2020 Harvey Awards (New York Comic Con’s awards), Dragon Hoops won Book of the Year.ĭragon Hoops follows the Bishop O’Dowd basketball team for one recent season, but it touches on the origins of the sport and other historical events.
He was a recipient of a “genius grant” from the Macarthur Foundation in 2016, and named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress, Every Child A Reader, and the Children’s Book Council. Yang’s work has been critically acclaimed: American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints were both finalists for Young People’s Literature in the National Book Awards-in 20, respectively. If the narrative in Dragon Hoops is to be trusted, it was while he worked on this book that Yang discerned that he should devote himself full time to writing. He was writing graphic novels on the side, in addition to being married and raising four children. Gene Luen Yang was, until 2015, a computer science teacher at a Catholic high school in Oakland, California (Bishop O’Dowd). I wanted to write about it because of how the author handles a historical allegation against a now-deceased basketball coach.įirst, a little background on the author and the book. Dragon Hoopsis a graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang that masterfully weaves together a season of Catholic high school basketball with historical vignettes, student stories, and weighty topics such as racism and abuse.
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