Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is a Japanese American writer. She was born in Inglewood, California in 1934 and graduated from San Jose State University. Her writings are mostly focused to the ethnic diversity of the United States.
In her well-known Farewell to Manzanar (1973) J.W. Houston presents her experiences in a Japanese American relocation camp during World War II. Other publications include Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (1984) with Paul G. Hensler as a co-author, and Beyond Manzanar and Other Views of Asian-American Womanhood (1985).
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- Calabrese, Joseph, and Susan Tchudi, eds. Diversity: Strength and Struggle. New York: Pearson Longdman, 2006. 25-26.
