Nisei writer Hisaye Yamamoto was born #OTD in 1921. She submitted her first written piece at 14 and became a regular contributor to the Kashu Mainichi. At 21, she was incarcerated at Poston in Arizona, where she became a writer for the camp newspaper. encyclopedia.densho.org/Hisaye%20Yam...
After the war, Yamamoto returned to Los Angeles and took a job as a reporter for the Los Angeles Tribune, an African American weekly. She earned a fellowship and began to publish works in prestigious publications like Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, and Harper's Bazaar.
Yamamoto’s work eventually received widespread critical acclaim for its precision and compassionate portrayal of Issei and Nisei life. She was awarded the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1986.
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