Uchida's father was questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the whole family was interned for three years, first at Tanforan Racetrack in California, and then in Topaz, Utah. Roosevelt ordered all Japanese Americans on the west coast to be rounded up and imprisoned in internment camps. Berkeley when the Japanese attacked the naval base at Pearl Harbor in 1941. The Uchidas lived in Berkeley, California and Yoshiko was in her senior year at U.C. She graduated from high school at sixteen and enrolled at University of California, Berkeley. She had an older sister, Keiko ("Kay," 1918-2008, mother of former New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani and married to mathematician Shizuo Kakutani). Yoshiko Uchida was born in Alameda, California, on November 24, 1921, the daughter of Takashi ("Dwight," 1884-1971) and Iku Umegaki Uchida (1893-1966). She also authored an adult memoir centering on her and her family's wartime incarceration ( Desert Exile, 1982), a young adult version her life story ( Invisible Thread, 1991), and a novel centering on a Japanese American family ( Picture Bride, 1987). A series of books, starting with Journey to Topaz (1971) take place during the era of the mass removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. Yoshiko Uchida (Novem– June 21, 1992) was an award-winning Japanese American writer of children's books based on aspects of Japanese and Japanese American history and culture. Fiction, folktales, nonfiction, autobiography
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