Scott D. Seligman
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Scott D. Seligman

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Scott D. Seligman is a national award-winning historian and biographer with a special interest in the history of hyphenated Americans. He holds an undergraduate degree in American history from Princeton University and a master's degree from Harvard University. Fluent in Mandarin, he lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China for eight years and reads and writes Chinese. He has worked as a legislative assistant to a member of the U.S. Congress, lobbied the Chinese government on behalf of American business, managed a multinational public relations agency in China, served as communications director of a Fortune 50 company and taught English and Chinese. He is the author of ten books, including The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City, which won gold medals in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards and the 2020-21 Reader Views Literary Awards; A Second Reckoning, which won a gold medal in the 2021 Foreword Indies Book of the Year awards; The Third Degree: The Triple Murder that Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice, which won a gold medal in the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards and The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo. He is also co-author of the best-selling Cultural Revolution Cookbook and Now You're Talking Mandarin Chinese. He has published articles in Smithsonian Magazine, The Atlantic, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Seattle Times, the China Business Review, Tablet Magazine, New York Jewish Week, The Forward, China Heritage Quarterly, Bucknell Magazine, Howard Magazine, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center blog, the New York Almanack blog, the Granite Studio blog and Traces, the Journal of the Indiana Historical Society. He lives in Washington, DC.
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