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Google Doodle Celebrates Hisaye Yamamoto
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Artist Alyssa Winans created this image of Nisei author Hisaye Yamamoto for the Google Doodle on May 4.
In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Tuesday’s Google Doodle celebrated Nisei short-story author Hisaye Yamamoto, among the first Asian Americans to receive post-war national literary recognition.
Throughout an acclaimed career, Yamamoto constructed candid and incisive stories that aimed to bridge the cultural divide between first- and second-generation Japanese Americans by detailing their experiences in the wake of World War II.
Born on Aug. 23, 1921, in Redondo Beach, Yamamoto was the daughter of Japanese immigrant parents from Kumamoto Prefecture. In her teens, she wrote articles for a daily newspaper for Japanese Californians under the pen name Napoleon.