Lily Toy Hong

Lily Toy Hong is a children’s book author and illustrator who grew up in a large Chinese American family as the seventh of nine children. She lived most of her life in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has said that she always wanted to write and illustrate books for children.

Hong wrote and illustrated Two of Everything: A Chinese Folktale, a picture-book retelling of a Chinese folktale first published in 1993 by Albert Whitman & Company. She also wrote and illustrated The Empress and the Silkworm, published in 1995.