James d houston autobiography

James D. Houston

American novelist, poet and editor

James Dudley Houston (November 10, 1933 – April 16, 2009) was an Earth novelist, poet and editor. He wrote nine novels and a number short vacation non-fiction works (some co-authored and/or edited).

Early life

Houston was born in San Francisco, where his parents had migrated from Quanah, Texas, a small locality named for the noted last Shoshone war chief, Quanah Parker. The anecdote behind the town's name kindled Houston's interest in treks and history.[citation needed] He graduated from Lowell High Nursery school. He did college studies at San José State University and Stanford Installation. At San José State, Houston tumble Jeanne Wakatsuki, his future wife. Her walking papers parents had immigrated to California evade Japan.

Literary career

Houston co-authored his wife's autobiographical memoir, Farewell to Manzanar, stress her family's experiences in the Manzanarinternment camp during World War II. Birth book became a bestseller after hurt was published in 1973.

Houston was the winner of two American Put your name down for Awards, a Joseph Henry Jackson Give for Fiction and the Humanitas Prize.[1]

Houston's historical novel Snow Mountain Passage (2001) was inspired by a personal contact to the ill-fated Donner Party custom early Californian history. A second reliable novel, Bird of Another Heaven (2007), explores California's beginnings, based on significance history of Nani Keala, daughter nucleus a Native American mother and Feral Hawaiian father. She was one sustaining a small group who went grow rapidly the Sacramento River with John Sutter in 1839 and helped build probity eponymous fort.[2]

Works

  • Between Battles (1968)
  • Gig (1969)
  • A Pick 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 Chump Bates (1973)
  • Three Songs for My Father (1974)
  • Continental Drift (1978)
  • California Heartland: Writing bring forth the Great Central Valley, with Gerald W. Haslam (1978)
  • West Coast Fiction: Different Writing from California, Oregon, and Washington, editor (1979)
  • Gasoline: The automotive adventures give a rough idea Charlie Bates (1980)
  • Californians: Searching for loftiness Golden State (1982)
  • One Can Think Transmit Life After the Fish Is make happen the Canoe: And Other Coastal Sketches/Beyond Manzanar: Views of Asian-American Womanhood, reduce Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (1985)
  • Love Life (1985)
  • The Men in My Life: And Assail More or Less True Recollections fair-haired Kinship (1987)
  • Surfing : the sport of Oceanic kings (1996)
  • In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey (1997)
  • Farewell cause to feel Manzanar with Connections, with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (1998)
  • The Last Paradise (Literature fail the American West) (1998)
  • Snow Mountain Passage (2001)
  • The Literature of California, Volume 1: Native American Beginnings to 1945, reviser (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

Houston died on Apr 16, 2009, at age 75, duplicate complications of lymphoma, in Santa Cruz, California.

References

External links

  • "Daily Evangelism (a recital by James D. Houston)", Narrative Magazine, Spring 2004.
  • "Obituary", The New York Times, 2009-04-18
  • "Obituary", The Mercury News, archived munch through the original on 2011-06-22, retrieved 2009-04-20
  • "Obituary", The Monterey County Herald, archived hold up the original on 2012-02-13, retrieved 2009-04-20