John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work.
During WW2, the US government suspended due process, rounded up more than 100,000 Japanese and American citizens of Japanese descent, and banished them to prison camps in desert wastelands. They were not charged with any crime, except, of course, being Japanese. This collection of haunting reminiscences, letters, stories, poems, and graphic art ...
"Yokahama, California", originally published in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in the fictional community of Yokahama, California, Mori's work is alive with the people, gossip, humour, and legends of Japanese America in the late 1930s.
Born in Oakland, California, in 1910, the young Toshio Mori dreamed of being an artist, a Buddhist missionary, and a baseball player. Instead, he grew flowers in the family nursery business, and -- influenced by contemporaries such as Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway -- produced a body of extraordinary fiction. Unfinished Message includes ...
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James Laughlin, William Bronk, Robert Edward Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Giannini, Yuki Hartman, Lawson Fusao Inada, Denise Levertov, Enrique Lihn, Richard Meyers, Carl Rakosi
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