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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

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Profession
Memoirist
Age
88 years old
Zodiac
Libra
Born in
Inglewood CA
About
Famous for her 1973 memoir Farewell to Manzanar, which describes her time as a prisoner of a World War II-era internment camp for Japanese Americans, Houston is also notable for her later works Beyond Manzanar and Other Views of Asian-American Womanhood (1985) and Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (1984).
Family
The youngest of ten children, she was born in Inglewood, California, to Japanese immigrants Ko and Misa Wakatsuki. Her marriage to her future Farewell to Manzanar co-author, James D. Houston, produced children named Joshua, Corinne, and Gabrielle.

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