Julie Otsuka

American author (born 1962)

Julie Otsuka (born May 15, 1962) is a Japanese-American author. She is known for her historical fiction novels depicting the experiences of Japanese-Americans in the United States. Biography. Otsuka was born in 1962, in Palo Alto, California. Her father worked as an aerospace engineer and her mother worked as a lab technician before she gave birth to Otsuka. Both of her parents were of Japanese descent, with her father being an issei and her mother being a nisei. When she was nine, her family moved to Palos Verdes, California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Otsuka

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