Thursday, July 30, 2009

Color Online Quiz: Literature & Women Studies

Quiz #58
Answer the quiz and your name will be entered in a monthly drawing. Post your reply to the comment box. Post or send us your email addy to be eligible to win. Cool prizes, check out our Prize Bucket.

I wasn't really totally American and I wasn't totally Japanese. I was mixture of the two, and I could never be anything else. ~Yoshiko Uchida

November 24, 1921- June 21, 1992
Asian American writer

Native Californian. Mother was a poet and her father was a businessman. Her first book was published in 1949 while she was teaching at Frankford Friends School. Who is she?

Thanks Jama! Visit Jama at Alphabet Soup

8 comments:

Ali said...

I have no idea who that is, but I'd bet many Americans can relate to it! Looking forward to seeing the answer.

jama said...

Yoshiko Uchida!

readermail (at) jamakimrattigan (dot com).

Color Online said...

DING!!!DING!!!DING!!!

Thanks, Jama.

Sandra said...

Congratulations jama. You sure answered quickly on that one. This author is new to me.

jama said...

I haven't read any of her books in awhile, but she was one of the first Asian American writers I read when I first started writing for children. There were so few then, more now . . .

JennyBHammond said...

Wow - i didn't realize she was teaching at Frankford Friends! Neat!

deped teacher said...

Can you give us some clue?

Color Online said...

Deped,

This has been answered. She is Yoshiko Uchida. After a quiz is answered, I update the post which you can see above.

Are you reading only partial post through a reader?