Monica Sone (so-nay) | |
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_01.jpg) Kazuko Itoi, Broadway High School, class of 1937 | |
| Born | Kazuko Itoi September 1, 1919 |
| Died | September 5, 2011 (aged 92) Canton, Ohio |
| Occupation | author, psychologist |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | autobiography |
| Subject | Japanese American internment |
| Notable works | Nisei Daughter |
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Monica Sone (September 1, 1919 – September 5, 2011), born Kazuko Itoi, was a Japanese American writer, best known for her 1953 autobiographical memoir Nisei Daughter, which tells of the Japanese American experience in Seattle during the 1920s and 1930s and in the World War II internment camps, and is an important text in Asian American and Women's Studies courses.