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Vancouver born author and poet. Lau is best known for her work, Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, which chronicles her life as a teenage prostitute and drug abuser. The book eventually became a made-for-TV movie titled 'The Diary of Evelyn Lau'. Her other works include Fresh Girls and Other Stories, In the House of the Slaves, and Other Women.

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Imprint: Evelyn Lau's 'Other Women' Review from the University of Waterloo's student newspaper. imprint.uwaterloo.ca/issues/020797/6Arts/arts06.html

Choosing Evelyn Lau Interview with the author about her collection of short stories, 'Choose Me'. www.infoculture.cbc.ca/../bookswr/bookswr_05211999_lau.html

Northwest Passage: Evelyn Lau Biography and selected bibliography. www.nwpassages.com/bios/lau.asp

Evelyn Lau Owes W.P. Kinsella an Apology Article from CBC Infoculture. www.infoculture.cbc.ca/../../bookswr_03111999_kinsella.html

100 Canadian Poets: Evelyn Lau Brief biography, publications, and list of critical materials. www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/e_lau.htm