China, New York and Hong Kong. She read English language and literature at the University of Hong Kong and undertook research on Chaucer in Hong Kong and Shakespeare at University College, London. She taught English language and literature at the University of Hong Kong for over thirty years before retiring as a professor, and has published extensively on Shakespeare, Chaucer, English-Chinese translation, stylistics and bilingualism. She has also published a book on the images of Chinese women in Anglo-American literature and edited a volume of essays on Asian writers writing creatively in English. Mimi Chan is married and has a son and a daughter. All the King's Women is her first work of historical fiction.