Kadohata biography

Cynthia Kadohata

Japanese-American children's writer (born )

Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2, )[1] is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kira which won the Newbery Medal in [2] She won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in for The Thing About Luck.[3]

Biography

Kadohata was born in Chicago, Illinois.[1] Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in She received a BA in journalism from the University of Southern California in [4] She also attended graduate programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University.

Kadohata started her writing career with short story submissions to magazines. Her first publication, titled Charlie O., was published in in The New Yorker.[5] Later stories were published in The Pennsylvania Review, Grand Street, and Ploughshares.[6]

Weedflower, her second children's book, was published in Spring It is about the Poston internment camp where her father was imprisoned during World War II.

Her third children's novel, Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam about the Vietnam War from a war dog's perspective, was published in January by Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Outside Beauty, another children's novel, was published in It is about a year-old girl and her three sisters, all fathered by different men and what happens when she and her sisters are separated from each other after their mother gets into an accident.

At least two of Kadohata's books touch on the topic of chick sexing. The family of the main character in her first novel, 's The Floating World, and also the family of the protagonist in 's Kira-Kira are employed at chicken hatcheries separating male chicks from female.[7] Kadohata's inspiration was her own personal experience.

Her father was a chick sexer during her childhood.[8]

As of January , Kadohata lived in Los Angeles with her boyfriend, son, and dogs.[9]

Novels

Newbery Medal[2]
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Youth Literature[12]
PEN USA Award
  • Cracker!

    The Best Dog in Vietnam (Atheneum, )

California Young Reader Medal, [13]
North Carolina Children's Book Award, Ohio Buckeye Children's Book Award, Nebraska Golden Sower, Kansas William Allen White Children's Book Award, South Carolina Junior Book Award
  • Outside Beauty (Atheneum, )
  • A Million Shades of Gray (Atheneum, )
  • The Thing About Luck (Atheneum, ), illustrated by Julia Kuo[14]
National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Youth Literature[15]
  • Half a World Away (Atheneum, )[16]
  • Checked (Atheneum, )
  • A Place to Belong (Atheneum, )
  • Vape (Caitlyn Dlouhy, )[17]

Short stories

  • Charlie O., (The New Yorker, October 12, )[18]
  • Seven Moons, (Grand Street vol 7 no 4, )[19]
  • Breece D'J Pancake, (Mississippi Review vol 18 no 1, )[20]
  • Gray Girl, (Ploughshares 25, December, 1, )[21]

See also

References

  1. ^ abcdCynthia Kadohata at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB).

    Her father was a chick sexer during her childhood. Both are gun-toting communities without morals, law, or order. University of Southern California BA. As of January , Kadohata lived in Los Angeles with her boyfriend, son, and dogs.

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  2. ^ ab"Newbery Medal and Honor Books, –Present". Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). American Library Association (ALA).
    &#; "The John Newbery Medal". ALSC. ALA. Retrieved
  3. ^" National Book Awards".

  4. Rajani larocca wikipedia
  5. Weedflower summary
  6. Cynthia Kadohata Biography - HowOld.co
  7. Cynthia Kadohata Biography - eNotes.com
  8. Cynthia Kadohata Biography - life, family, childhood ...

    9. National Book Foundation. Retrieved With short interviews of winners and finalists.

  9. ^"Cynthia Kadohata '79". University of Southern California. Retrieved 22 February
  10. ^Kadohata, Cynthia (13 October ).

    It was there, while wandering through the city's many bookstores that she rediscovered her love of reading, a hobby she had abandoned as she grew older. About Discuss. After receiving numerous rejections, she sold a story to the New Yorker in ; that tale, along with two others also published by that prestigious magazine, would later become part of her debut novel, The Floating World. The beautiful landscape, the highways—I love it.

    "Charlie O."The New Yorker. Retrieved 22 February

  11. ^"Cynthia Kadohata at Worldcat". . Retrieved 22 February
  12. ^van Harmelen, Jonathan. "Chick sexing". Densho Encyclopedia. Densho. Retrieved 22 February
  13. ^"Cynthia Kadohata".

    BookBrowse. Retrieved 22 February

  14. ^"About". Cynthia Kadohata.

    Cynthia kadohata biography To see it as clearly as you can. Kadohata, Cynthia gale. When researching Weedflower, Kadohata spoke with her father to get details. The family does eventually leave "the floating world" of gas stations, motels, and truck stops to settle permanently in Arkansas, where Olivia, finally in a stable home, has the freedom to grow up.

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  15. ^Kakutani, Michiko (). "Books of The Times; Growing Up Rootless in an Immigrant Family". The New York Times. ISSN&#; Retrieved
  16. ^Cynthia Kadohata in libraries (WorldCat catalog). Retrieved
  17. ^" Awards Winners". APALA. Retrieved 1 February
  18. ^"Booklist – Middle School / Junior High"Archived at the Wayback Machine.

    California Young Reader Medal. Retrieved

  19. ^Goddu, Krystyna Poray ().

    Kadohata biography Newsletter Subscribe to receive some of our best reviews, "beyond the book" articles, book club info and giveaways by email. Her third children's novel, Cracker! As Olivia grows to become a young adult she must do so in very close quarters and under the watchful eyes of her parents, because the family does everything together, including sometimes sleeping in the same room. My sister lived in Asia for twenty years but now lives in Boston.

    "'The Favorite Daughter' and 'The Thing About Luck'". The New York Times. ISSN&#; Retrieved

  20. ^" AWARDS WINNERS". APALA. Retrieved 1 February
  21. ^RITA WILLIAMS-GARCIA (17 Oct ). "Sunday Book Review: 'Half a World Away' by Cynthia Kadohata".

    New York Times. Retrieved 14 May

  22. ^Maughan, Shannon. "Spring Children's Sneak Previews". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz.

    Clear: Itagaki, review of In the Heart of the Valley of Love, p. As she told Publishers Weekly interviewer Lisa See, "there's so much variety among Asian-American writers that you can't say what an Asian-American writer is. In School Library Journal Ashley Larsen called Kira-Kira a "beautifully written story [that] tells of a girl struggling to find her own way in a family torn by illness and horrible work conditions," while in Publishers Weekly a contributor concluded: "The family's devotion to one another, and Lynn's ability to teach Katie to appreciate the 'kirakira,' or gilttering, in everyday life makes this novel shine. Kadohata in

    Retrieved 22 February

  23. ^Kadohata, Cynthia (13 October ). "Charlie O."The New Yorker. Retrieved 22 February
  24. ^Kadohata, Cynthia (). "Seven Moons". Grand Street. 7 (4): 73– doi/ JSTOR&#;
  25. ^Kadohata, Cynthia ().

  28. "Breece D'J Pancake". Mississippi Review. 18 (1): 35– JSTOR&#;

  29. ^"Winter ". Ploushares at Emerson College. Retrieved 22 February
  • Staff (September ) "Cynthia Kadohata – " Biography Today 15(3) pp.&#;38–49

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