Yokohama, California

Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, & legends of Japanese America in the 1930s & 1940s.

Replaces ISBN 9780295961675

Toshio Mori (1910–1980) was born in Oakland, California. During World War II, he was interned, with his family, at the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah, where he served as camp historian. 

Xiaojing Zhou is professor of English at the University of the Pacific and author of Cities of Others: Reimagining Urban Spaces in Asian American Literature.

William Saroyan (1908-1981) was an internationally renowned Armenian American writer, playwright, & humanitarian. He achieved great popularity in the thirties, forties, & fifties through his hundreds of short stories, plays, novels, memoirs, & essays. 

In 1939, Saroyan was the first American writer to win both the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award & the Pulitzer Prize for his play The Time of Your Life. He famously refused to accept the Pulitzer Prize on the grounds that "Commerce should not patronize art." He died near his hometown of Fresno at the age of seventy-two. The Time of Your Life was originally published in 1983 by Methuen.