Okada, John
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Name (Latin)
Okada, John
Date of birth
1923-09-23
Date of death
1971-02-20
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
English language
Library science
Literature
Technical writing
Occupation
Novelists
Soldiers
Teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- His No-no boy, 1981:t.p. (John Okado) pub. adv. copy (b. Seattle, Wash., 1923; died of heart attack at age 47)
- His No-no boy, a novel, 1957.
- John Okada, 2018:ECIP data view (pioneering American novelist; Okada was a Nisei, second-generation Japanese American--the child of immigrants; best known for this novel, No-no boy)
- No-no boy, 2014:t.p. (John Okada) p. 4 of cover (John Okada was born in Seattle in 1923. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, attended the University of Washington and Columbia University, and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. No-No Boy is his only published novel)
- Wikipedia, March 3, 2018(John Okada: b. 9/9/1923; d. 2/20/2071; Japanese American writer, who is considered to be the first Japanese American novelist; it is now known that he also wrote short stories, poetry and dramas; born in Seattle, he was a student at the University of Washington during the attack on Pearl Harbor; Okada had to interrupt his studies, and he and his family were among thousands of American citizens interned at Minidoka War Relocation Center in 1942; served in the US military during WWII; after the war, he returned to his educational pursuits, earning a bachelor's degree in English and a second bachelor's degree in library science from the University of Washington, as well as a master's degree in English from Columbia University; in 1956, Okada completed the manuscript for his novel No-No Boy, and it was published that year; it was the first novel ever published by a U.S.-born Japanese American; he worked as a teacher and then as a technical writer for an engineering firm)
- LCN ; His No-no boy, a novel, 1957