Monica Itoi Sone
Monica Itoi Sone, born Kazuko Itoi in 1919, was a Japanese-American writer best known for her 1953 memoir Nisei Daughter.
Raised in Seattle by Japanese immigrant parents, Sone experienced the challenges of balancing American and Japanese cultures.
She contracted tuberculosis as a teenager and later endured internment during World War II. Despite these hardships, Sone pursued higher education, earning degrees from Hanover College and Case Western Reserve University.
Her memoir, which details her experiences growing up in Seattle and in internment camps, has become an important text in Asian American and Women's Studies courses, praised for its unique perspective on this period of American history.
