Wakako Yamauchi

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Wakako Yamauchi (born 1924) is an Asian American female writer. She is the author of the play "12-1-A", the title a reference to an internment camp where the Nikkei characters were detained during World War II.

Wakako Yamauchi was born in Westmoreland, California. Her mother and father, both issei, or first-generation immigrants from Japan, were farmers in California's Imperial Valley. Many of her stories and her first two plays, And the Soul Shall Dance and The Music Lessons, are set in the same dusty, isolated settings. In 1942, Yamauchi and her family were interned at the concentration camp in Poston, Arizona. Her first play, And the Soul Shall Dance, adapted from her short story of the same title, was first performed at the East/West Players in Los Angeles and won the Los Angeles Critics' Circle Award for best new play of 1977. It was produced for public television".^[1]