No-No Boy (Classics of Asian American Literature)

No-No Boy (Classics of Asian American Literature)

John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the US Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart atta…

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