LOS ANGELES — Hisaye Yamamoto, a pioneer in Asian American literature, passed away on Jan. 30, 2011 in Los Angeles at the age of 89. She was the author of “Seventeen Syllables,†“Yoneko’s Earthquake,†“The Legend of Miss Sasagawara†and other short stories about Japanese American life from the 1930s to the present. Based on […]
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