“Farewell to Manzanar” has sold 1.6 million copies domestically, according to its publisher, HarperCollins. In 1976, Ms. Houston, her husband and John Korty adapted the book into a TV ...

The family of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston confirmed Monday that the author of Farewell to Manzanar is dead at the age of 90 of natural causes after a fight with cancer, reports Pacific Citizen.

With encouragement from her husband, novelist James D. Houston, she decided to broaden the project into a book: “Farewell to Manzanar” (1973), which opened a window into the experience of the ...

it spurred the revelation of ‘Maybe I should write a book about it,’” she said. Alongside James, also a published author, Jeanne co-wrote “Farewell to Manzanar” which blended her ...

Interpreting Manzanar’s history is the culmination of a lifelong passion for Lynch. She checked out library books about Japanese culture at a very early age, and when she was 9, the movie “Farewell to ...

it spurred the revelation of ‘Maybe I should write a book about it,’” she said. Alongside James, also a published author, Jeanne co-wrote “Farewell to Manzanar” which blended her ...

The book has sold 1.6 million copies and became ... International Film Festival in 1986 for a screening of “Farewell to Manzanar,” they were inspired to bring something similar to their ...