Mako Yoshikawa

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Mako Yoshikawa
Born1966
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of Michigan
OccupationNovelist

Mako Yoshikawa (born 1966) is an 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]

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  1. Yoshikawa, Mako (May 4, 1999). One Hundred and One Ways . Bantam. ISBN   978-0-553-11099-9.
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  3. Yoshikawa, Mako (June 29, 2004). Once Removed . Bantam. ISBN   978-0-553-38098-9.
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  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.
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