Seattle is organizing a series of programs to commemorate John Okada, the celebrated native author renowned for his groundbreaking 1957 Japanese American novel, "No-No Boy." Literary luminary's legacy: Okada, the son of Japanese immigrants, was born in Seattle on Sept. 22, 1923, at the Merchants Hotel in Pioneer Square.
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