Seattle-born author of Nisei Daughter, the first published autobiography written by a Nisei woman, and Ohio clinical psychologist. Monica Itoi Sone’s (1919–2011) sensitive, often humorous book, notable for its lack of bitterness, explored the themes of cultural identity, assimilation, racism and intergenerational conflict in the Seattle Japanese American community and at the U.S. government camp Minidoka.
Educator and author of books on Japanese Americans in Hawai’i.
Versatile Nisei performer and literary artist who made her mark in mainstream circles in New York during the postwar era.
Mexican playwright, actress and literary theatre critic
Mexican researcher, professor, essayist and literary critic
Mexican writer and photographer
Mexican writer and journalist
Argentine researcher and writer
Yoshiko Uchida (1921–92) was an award-winning writer of children’s books, all of which are based on aspects of Japanese and Japanese American history and culture.
Mother Benedicta (Sybilla) Riepp was the founder of the Roman Catholic Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict in North America. By 1946, Saint Benedict’s Monastery was the largest community of Benedictine Sisters in the world.