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james d houston wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 early life 2 literary career 3 works 4 death 5 references 6 external links toggle the table of contents james d houston 3 languages العربية مصرى nederlands edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia american novelist poet and editor james d houston born james dudley houston 1933 11 10 november 10 1933 san francisco california u s died april 16 2009 2009 04 16 aged 75 santa cruz california u s education lowell high school stanford university occupations novelist poet editor spouse jeanne wakatsuki writing career notable awards american book award 1983 1999 james dudley houston november 10 1933 april 16 2009 was an american novelist poet and editor he wrote nine novels and a number of non fiction works some co authored and or edited early life edit houston was born in san francisco where his parents had migrated from quanah texas a small town named for the noted last comanche war chief quanah parker the story behind the town s name kindled houston s interest in treks and history citation needed he graduated from lowell high school he did college studies at san josé state university and stanford university at san josé state houston met jeanne wakatsuki his future wife her parents had immigrated to california from japan literary career edit houston co authored his wife s autobiographical memoir farewell to manzanar about her family s experiences in the manzanar internment camp during world war ii the book became a bestseller after it was published in 1973 houston was the winner of two american book awards a joseph henry jackson award for fiction and the humanitas prize 1 houston s historical novel snow mountain passage 2001 was inspired by a personal link to the ill fated donner party of early californian history a second historical novel bird of another heaven 2007 explores california s beginnings based on the history of nani keala daughter of a native american mother and native hawaiian father she was one of a small group who went up the sacramento river with john sutter in 1839 and helped build the eponymous fort 2 works edit between battles 1968 gig 1969 a native son of the golden west ballantine books 1972 farewell to manzanar with jeanne wakatsuki houston 1972 an occurrence at norman s burger castle 1972 the adventures of charlie bates 1973 three songs for my father 1974 continental drift 1978 california heartland writing from the great central valley with gerald w haslam 1978 west coast fiction modern writing from california oregon and washington editor 1979 gasoline the automotive adventures of charlie bates 1980 californians searching for the golden state 1982 one can think about life after the fish is in the canoe and other coastal sketches beyond manzanar views of asian american womanhood with jeanne wakatsuki houston 1985 love life 1985 the men in my life and other more or less true recollections of kinship 1987 surfing the sport of hawaiian kings 1996 in the ring of fire a pacific basin journey 1997 farewell to manzanar with connections with jeanne wakatsuki houston 1998 the last paradise literature of the american west 1998 snow mountain passage 2001 the literature of california volume 1 native american beginnings to 1945 editor 2001 hawaiian son with eddie kamae 2004 bird of another heaven 2007 where light takes its color from the sea 2008 a queen s journey 2011 death edit houston died on april 16 2009 at age 75 of complications of lymphoma in santa cruz california references edit dunn geoffrey 2009 04 21 elegy for james d houston santa cruz weekly archived from the original on 2014 01 07 retrieved 2014 01 06 james d houston dies at 75 novelist essayist whose works explored california los angeles times april 17 2009 external links edit daily evangelism a story by james d houston narrative magazine spring 2004 obituary the new york times 2009 04 18 obituary the mercury news archived from the original on 2011 06 22 retrieved 2009 04 20 obituary the monterey county herald archived from the original on 2012 02 13 retrieved 2009 04 20 v t e american book awards winners 1980 1999 1980 douglas woolf edward dorn jayne cortez leslie marmon silko mei mei berssenbrugge milton murayama quincy troupe rudolfo anaya 1981 alta alan chong lau bienvenido n santos helen adam lionel mitchell miguel algarín nicholasa mohr peter blue cloud robert kelly rose drachler susan howe toni cade bambara 1982 al young duane niatum e l mayo frank chin hilton obenzinger him mark lai genny lim judy yung jerome rothenberg joyce carol thomas leroy quintana lorna dee cervantes ronald phillip tanaka russell banks tato laviera 1983 barbara christian cecilia liang evangelina vigil piñón harriet rohmer james d houston jessica tarahata hagedorn john a williams joy kogawa judy grahn nash candelaria peter guralnick seán ó tuama 1984 cecil brown gary snyder howard schwartz mark podwal imamu amiri baraka jesús colón joseph bruchac maurice kenny mei mei berssenbrugge miné okubo paule marshall ruthanne lum mccunn you shan tang ellen lai shan yeung thomas mcgrath venkatesh kulkarni william j kennedy 1985 angela jackson arnold genthe john kuo wei tchen colleen j mcelroy gary soto peter irons keiho soga taisanboku mori sojin takei muin ozaki louise erdrich maureen owen may sarton robert edward duncan ron jones sandra cisneros sonia sanchez julia vinograd william oandasan 1986 anna lee walters cherríe moraga gloria e anzaldúa helen barolini jeff hannusch linda hogan miguel algarín natasha borovsky raymond federman susan howe terence winch toshio mori 1987 ai ana castillo cyn zarco daniel mcguire dorothy bryant etheridge knight gary giddins harvey pekar james welch john wieners juan felipe herrera lucia chiavola birnbaum michael mayo septima poinsette clark cynthia stokes brown terry mcmillan 1988 allison blakely charles olson daisy bates david halberstam edward sanders gerald vizenor jimmy santiago baca kesho y scott cherry muhanji egyirba high marlon k hom benjamin hoff ronald sukenick salvatore la puma toni morrison wing tek lum tek lum lum 1989 alma luz villanueva askia m touré audre lorde carolyn lau emory elliott eduardo galeano frank chin henry louis gates isabel allende j california cooper jennifer stone josephine gattuso hendin leslie scalapino shuntaro tanikawa charles fanning william minoru hohri 1990 adrienne kennedy barbara grizzuti harrison daniela gioseffi elizabeth woody hualing nieh itabari njeri james m freeman john c walter j raymond jones john norton josé emilio gonzález sergei kan lloyd a thompson martin bernal michelle t clinton sesshu foster miles davis paula gunn allen shirley geok lin lim mayumi tsutakawa margarita donnelly 1991 alejandro murguía bell hooks bruce wright charley trujillo d h melhem deborah keenan jessica hagedorn john edgar wideman joy harjo karen tei yamashita lucia berlin mary crow dog meridel le sueur mill hunk herald collective nora marks dauenhauer richard dauenhauer r baxter miller thomas centolella 1992 a lelia perry bundles art spiegelman benjamin alire sáenz donna j haraway fritjof capra josé antonio burciaga keith gilyard lucy thompson norma field peter bacho peter kalifornsky raymond andrews sandra scofield sheila hamanaka verlyn klinkenborg william b branch amiri baraka august wilson 1993 asake bomani belvie rooks christopher mogil peter woodrow cornel west denise giardina diane glancy eugene b redmond francisco x alarcón gerald graff jack beatty leroy v quintana katherine peter nelson george ninotchka rosca 1994 giose rimanelli eric drooker graciela limón gregory j reed janet campbell hale jill nelson lawson fusao inada nicole blackman paul gilroy ronald takaki rose l glickman tino villanueva virginia l kroll 1995 abraham rodriguez herb boyd robert l allen denise chavez john egerton john ross thomas avena linda raymond li young lee marianna de marco torgovnick marnie mueller peter quinn sandra martz gordon henry jr tricia rose 1996 agate nesaule arthur sze chang rae lee chitra banerjee divakaruni e j miller laino glenn c loury james w loewen joe sacco edward said kimiko hahn maria espinosa robert viscusi sherman alexie ron sakolsky fred weihan ho stephanie cowell william h gass 1997 alurista derrick bell dorothy barresi guillermo gómez peña louis 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