Jeanne Houston
Author of Farewell to Manzanar
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Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contributor — 121 copies
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- Canonical name
- Houston, Jeanne
- Legal name
- Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki
- Birthdate
- 1934-08-26
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Inglewood, California (born)
Manzanar Relocation Camp, California, USA
Santa Cruz, California - Education
- San Jose State University
Sorbonne
University of Paris - Relationships
- Houston, James D. (husband)
- Awards and honors
- Humanities Prize
Christopher Award
Wonder Woman Award 1984 - Short biography
- Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston was born in California and spent much of her life on the West Coast. She met her husband and co-author, James D. Houston, at San Jose State College. They were married in Hawaii in 1957. A tour of duty in the USAF took them to France, where they travelled and studied at the Sorbonne for a year. They and their three children now live in Santa Cruz.
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Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
This memoir sheds light on an all-but-forgotten shameful part of American history when Japanese Americans were forcibly evacuated to settlement camps following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The author was 7 years old and one of 10 children sent with their parents to live in Manzanar, an internment camp in California. Most left behind belongings and homes that were plundered. This is an insight into the deplorable living conditions when they arrived and life in the camp. It is also a memory of how her family survived until they were forced to leave with no home to which they could return. Many of these Japanese Americans served in the military and many did not return from WWII.… (more)
½Great novel about the Japanese-American experience during World War II. What stook out to me was the honesty. The author tells the story from the perspective of a young girl and doesn't hold back. She goes into detail on how the experience affected her parents and her siblings/herself differently. This novel is a great read for younger students, because it gives a young person's perspective on life during the internment process.
Follow Jeanne as she retells her time living in an internment camp during WWII. This story recalls before being at Manzanar Camp, living there, and the impact on life after the camp. A memoir that touches on a part of WWII that isn't often talked about as well as growing up during that time. Reading level appropriate for middle school.
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