Dec. 3, Wednesday -- To coincide with the week of the Dec. 7 anniversary of Pearl Harbor, Japanese-American author Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston will reflect on the legacy of the internment camps during World War II as part of the Noontime Seminar series. In 1973, with novelist husband James D. Houston, Jeanne Houston wrote "Farewell to Manzanar," a classic memoir that tells of her internment in 1942 at the Manzanar Relocation Camp. The Houstons also co-wrote the screenplay for a film of the same title, which was nominated for an Emmy Award and won the Humanitas Prize. Jeanne Houston's talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place in 126 Voorhies Hall. Media contact: Aaron DiFranco, PRHC, (530) 752-9857, akdifranco@ucdavis.edu.
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