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.
Lawson Fusao Inada has published several books of poetry, including Legends from Camp (1994), which won an American Book Award. He was also named Oregon’s fifth poet Laureate in 2006.
