Onoto watanna biography samples

Diana Birchall, Eaton's granddaughter, tells the An essential resource on Watanna's primary works is Jean Lee Cole's "Newly Recovered Works by Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton): A Prospectus and Checklist" (Legacy []: ), which includes materials never collected in any previous bibliography. See also the bibliography on Sui Sin Far. Ando, Yoshiro. "Onoto Watanna to Iu Sakka.".

Watanna was born in Winnifred Eaton (August 21, – April 8, ) was a Canadian author and screenwriter of Chinese-British ancestry. [1]. Publishing prolifically under a number of names, [2] most predominantly, the pseudonym Onoto Watanna, she was one of the first North American writers of Asian descent to publish fiction in English. [3].

Using a historicist approach, Winnifred Eaton was a popular early Asian North American author, journalist, screenwriter and playwright whose best known works were published under the pen-name “Onoto Watanna,” a controversial persona that she assumed for over two decades.

The half-Chinese, half-English, Canadian-born Winnifred Winnifred Eaton achieved literary fame under the pseudonym Onoto Watanna. She was the first person of Asian descent to publish a novel in the United States — Miss Numè of Japan () — and to reach a mainstream audience. Her novel A Japanese Nightingale () was adapted into a Broadway play and a motion picture.

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Diana Birchall, Eaton's granddaughter, tells the Horatio Alger story of the woman who became Onoto Watanna. Born to a British father and a Chinese mother, Winnifred capitalized on her exotic appearance—and protected herself from Americans' scorn of the Chinese—by "becoming" Japanese.

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“Onoto Watanna,” the pseudo-Japanese Winnifred Eaton Babcock Reeve (b. –d. ) was a Chinese North American author best known for fiction published under the faux-Japanese penname “Onoto Watanna.” In her forty-year career, Eaton published nineteen novels, many of which were critically acclaimed and translated into many languages.

The half-Chinese, half-English, Canadian-born Winnifred

Born Winnifred Eaton to She tells Eaton's story with affection, energy, and sensitivity to her subject's unique voice and personality."--Eve Oishi, California State University at Long Beach "This finely crafted, meticulously researched, and very witty biography of Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton makes the fascinating novelist come alive in all her human contradictions.