Mako Yoshikawa

Mako Yoshikawa
Born 1966
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Michigan
Occupation novelist

Mako Yoshikawa (born 1966) is a highly acclaimed American novelist. She is the author of two novels, One Hundred and One Ways (1999), a national bestseller that was also translated into six languages,[1][2] and Once Removed (2003).[3]

Her recent work includes personal essays that have won awards and appeared in important literary journals and anthologies including: The Missouri Review,[4][5]Southern Indiana Review,[6][7] Harvard Review,[8] and Best American Essays 2013. Eds. Cheryl Strayed and Robert Atwan.[9]

Yoshikawa grew up in Princeton, New Jersey but spent two years of her childhood in Tokyo, Japan. She received a BA in English literature from Columbia University, a Masters in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at Lincoln College, Oxford, and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.[2] She is the recipient of the Vera M. Schuyler Fellowship at The Bunting Institute of Harvard University.[10]

She has also published scholarly essays on race and incest in American literature.[11]

She lives in the Boston area and is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Yoshikawa, Mako (May 4, 1999). One Hundred and One Ways. Bantam. ISBN 978-0-553-11099-9.
  2. 1 2 "Mako Yoshikawa". Retrieved 2009-11-15.
  3. ↑ Yoshikawa, Mako (June 29, 2004). Once Removed. Bantam. ISBN 978-0-553-38098-9.
  4. ↑ http://www.missourireview.com/archives/bbarticle/my-fathers-women/
  5. ↑ http://www.missourireview.com/archives/bbarticle/the-veterans-project-number-two/
  6. ↑ http://www.usi.edu/sir/archives/2014Spring.aspx
  7. ↑ http://www.usi.edu/sir/archives/2012Fall.aspx
  8. ↑ http://harvardreview.fas.harvard.edu/?q=print-issues/harvard-review-45
  9. ↑ http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/hmh/bestamerican/essaysbookdetails
  10. ↑ "The Bunting Institute". Retrieved 2009-12-03.
  11. ↑ See “The New Face of Incest?: Race, Class, and the Controversy over Kathryn Harrison’s The Kiss.” Incest and the Literary Imagination, ed. Elizabeth Barnes, University of Florida Press. Fall 2002. And “‘A Kind of Family Feeling about Nancy’: Race and the Hidden Threat of Incest in Sapphira and the Slave Girl.” Willa Cather’s Southern Connections, ed. Ann Romines, University of Virginia Press. Fall 2000.
  12. ↑ http://www.emerson.edu/academics/faculty-guide/profile/mako-yoshikawa/636
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