The Legend of Fire Horse Woman (novel), Kensington Publishing (New York, NY), 2003.Īlso author of treatments and pilot scripts for television programs. Houston), Capra Press (San Francisco, CA), 1985. Hensler) Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (nonfiction), Doubleday ( New York, NY), 1984.īeyond Manzanar: Views of Asian-American Womanhood (bound with One Can Think about Life after the Fish Is in the Canoe, and Other Coastal Sketches by James D. Houston and John Korty) Farewell to Manzanar (screenplay), Universal, 1976. Houston) Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese-American Experience during and after the World War II Internment, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1973, reprinted, Holt, Rinehart & Winston ( New York, NY), 2000. Information Agency, 1984 Wonder Woman Award, 1984 special award, Hawaii International Film Festival, 1989 U.S.-Japan Creative Arts Exchange fellowship, 1991-92 Santa Cruz Ethnic Arts Award of Recognition, 1992 honorary degree from DeAnza College, 1994 Rockefeller Foundation grant for Italy, 1995 Cary McWilliams Award, California Studies Association, 2000 named Japanese American of the Biennium 2002-04, Japanese-American Citizens League, 2004. AWARDS, HONORS:Įmmy Award nomination, outstanding writing of an adaptation for a special program (with others), 1976, Humanitas Prize, Human Family Educational and Cultural Institute, 1976, and Christopher Award, all for screenplay Farewell to Manzanar award from National Women's Political Caucus travel grant for Asia, U.S. Network to Promote Asian/Pacific Cinema, member of board of directors juror for Hawaii International Film Festival and for Pacific Rim Book Prize, Kiriyama Foundation Tandy Beal Dance Company, member of advisory board. Guest speaker at educational institutions and other venues, including Sonoma State College, University of Hawaii at Hilo, University of Texas at Austin, University of Ryukyus, Whittier College, and Windward College writer in residence at Bellagio, in Italy, 1995.

Group worker and juvenile probation officer in San Mateo, CA, 1955-57 writer.

Agent-Linda Allen Literary Agency, 1949 Green St., Ste. Hobbies and other interests: Swimming, dancing, film. Ethnicity: 'Japanese.' Education: San Jose State College (now State University), B.A., 1956 also attended San Francisco State University and Sorbonne, University of Paris. Houston (a novelist), 1957 children: Corinne Houston Traugott, Joshua D., Gabrielle Houston Neville. Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki 1934- (Jeanne Toyo Wakatsuki Houston) PERSONAL:īorn September 26, 1934, in Inglewood, CA daughter of George Ko (a fisher and farmer) and Riku (a homemaker) Wakatsuki married James D.

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