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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Farewell to Manzanar

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A Japanese American woman looks back on life at an internment camp during World War II and tells of how the fear, confusion, and ultimate dignity of the people there shaped her life.

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Weitere Autoren: Houston, James D.
  • ISBN: 978-0-618-21620-8
  • EAN: 9780618216208
  • Produktnummer: 9663507
  • Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.9 cm 313 g
  • Abbildungen: Cloth Over Boards
  • Gewicht: 313
  • Sonstiges: Ab 10 J.

Über den Autor


Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston was born in Inglewood, California, in 1934. She studied sociology and journalism at San Jose State University, where she met her husband and cowriter of her memoir Farewell to Manzanar, James D. Houston. For their teleplay for the NBC television drama based on Farewell to Manzanar, they received the prestigious Humanitas Prize. Jeanne’s widely anthologized essays and short stories were first collected in Beyond Manzanar: Views of Asian American Womanhood. Her works have earned numerous honors, including a United States-Japan Cultural Exchange Fellowship; a Rockefeller Foundation residence at Bellagio, Italy; and a 1984 Wonder Woman Award, given to women over forty who have made outstanding achievements in pursuit of truth and positive social change.  James D. Houston (1933–2009) was the author of several novels and nonfiction works exploring the history and cultures of the western United States and the Asia/Pacific region. His works include Snow Mountain Passage, Continental Drift, In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, and The Last Paradise, which received a 1999 American Book Award for fiction. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, Jim received a National Endowment for the Arts writing grant, a Library of Congress Story Award, and traveled to Asia lecturing for the U.S.I.S. Arts America program.  

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