Mako Yoshikawa

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 it was also translated into six languages,^[1][2] and Once Removed (2003).^[3]

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.^[4]

She has also published scholarly essays on race and incest in American literature.^[5]

She lives in the Boston area and is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College.^[6]

References

1. ^ Yoshikawa, Mako (May 4, 1999). One Hundred and One Ways. Bantam. ISBN 978-0553110999. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Mako Yoshikawa". http://www.makoyoshikawa.com. Retrieved 2009-11-15. 
3. ^ Yoshikawa, Mako (June 29, 2004). Once Removed. Bantam. ISBN 978-0553380989. 
4. ^ "The Bunting Institute". http://www.radcliffe.edu/about/quarterly/spring2004.aspx. Retrieved 2009-12-03. 
5. ^ 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.
6. ^ "Writing, Literature & Publishing Faculty". Emerson College. http://www.emerson.edu/writing_lit_publishing/faculty.cfm?facultyID=636. Retrieved 2009-11-15. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Official Site
• Emerson College bio
• The Bunting Institute