In “Farewell to Manzanar,” she wrote about the years she and her family were imprisoned in a camp for Japanese Americans. It became the basis for a TV movie. By Richard Sandomir Jeanne Wakatsuki ...
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, whose acclaimed memoir “Farewell to Manzanar” recounted her childhood years in a crowded, barbed wire-fenced detention center, renewing attention to the trauma thousands of ...
Authors Tracy Slater and Julia Riew published two very different books last month that were inspired by a similar time in history. First, Together in Manzanar is set during the incarceration of ...
Houston Public Media: New book 'Together in Manzanar' reveals life inside WWII Japanese detention camp
New book 'Together in Manzanar' reveals life inside WWII Japanese detention camp
Redlands Daily Facts: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Inglewood-born author of ‘Farewell to Manzanar,’ dies at 90
SANTA CRUZ — Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, an acclaimed author who shared stories of growing up in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II in her 1973 memoir, “Farewell to Manzanar,” died ...
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Inglewood-born author of ‘Farewell to Manzanar,’ dies at 90
The San Bernardino Sun: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Inglewood-born author of ‘Farewell to Manzanar,’ dies at 90
NPR: 2 new books were inspired by dark moments in Japanese and Japanese American history
2 new books were inspired by dark moments in Japanese and Japanese American history
Karl Yoneda and Elaine Buchman, March 1933. The couple would later be incarcerated with their son at the Manzanar concentration camp during World War II. (The Karl G. Yoneda Papers, UCLA Special ...