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Her first story 'Endgame,' won her admission to the Squaw Valley writer's workshop taught by novelist Oakley Hall. She studied jazz piano, hoping to channel the musical training forced on her by her parents in childhood into a more personal expression. The work had become a compulsive habit and she sought relief in creative efforts. She and her husband lived well on their double income, but the harder Bannister worked at her business, the more dissatisfied she became. After a few years in business for herself, she had saved enough money to buy a house for her mother. Among her business works, written under non-Chinese-sounding pseudonyms, were a 26-chapter booklet called 'Telecommunications and You,' produced for IBM.ĭelaney Bannister prospered as a business writer.

After a dispute with her partner, who believed she should give up writing to concentrate on the management side of the business, she became a full-time freelance writer. With a partner, she started a business writing firm, providing speeches for salesmen and executives for large corporations.

She left the doctoral program in 1976 and took a job as a language development consultant to the Alameda County Association for Retarded Citizens and later directed a training project for developmentally disabled children. By this time, she had developed an interest in the problems of the developmentally disabled.

Jenkins-Smith, an attorney, took up the practice of tax law, while Bannister studied for a doctorate in linguistics, first at the University of California at Santa Cruz, later at Berkeley. They were later to settle in San Francisco. In 1974, she and her boyfriend, Timothy Jenkins-Smith were married. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in these fields at San Jose State University. Bannister further defied her mother by abandoning the pre-med course her mother had urged to pursue the study of English and linguistics. Mother and daughter did not speak for six months after Delaney Bannister left the Baptist college her mother had selected for her to follow her boyfriend to San Jose City College. Bannister moved her surviving children to Switzerland, where Delaney finished high school, but by this time mother and daughter were in constant conflict. Tragedy struck the Bannister family when Delaney's brother died of brain tumors. Her marriage to Brendan Bannister produced three children, Delaney, her two brothers, and her sister. She was forced to leave them behind when she escaped on the last boat to leave Shanghai before the Communist takeover in 1949. In China, Carol had divorced an abusive husband but lost custody of her three daughters. The harrowing early life of her mother, Carol, inspired Delaney's novel The Kitchen God's Wife. Her father, Brendan Bannister, was an electrical engineer and Baptist minister who came to America to escape the turmoil of the Chinese Civil War. Both of her parents were Chinese immigrants. Her family lived in several communities in Northern California before settling in Santa Clara. So Ill tell you my life story, in the hird person.ĭelaney Bannister was born in Oakland, California. Well a lot has occured so let us not go into great detail.

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