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Onoto Watanna: The Story of Winnifred Eaton

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Description for Onoto Watanna: The Story of Winnifred Eaton Paperback. Born to a British father and a Chinese mother, Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) decided to capitalize on her exotic appearance. This work chronicles the sometimes desperate, sometimes canny, and always bold course of her career as a journalist, a bestselling novelist, and a Hollywood scriptwriting protegee of Carl Laemmle at Universal Studios. Series: The Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 296 pages, 27 photographs. BIC Classification: 1K; BG; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.

In 1901, Winnifred Eaton arrived in New York City with literary ambitions, journalism experience, and the manuscript for A Japanese Nightingale, the novel that would make her famous. Her writing and gift for reinvention would set her apart from other women authors of her time and make her a fascinating early figure in Asian American literature. 

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. Her popular Japanese-themed romance novels thrust ... Read more

A compelling saga of the shifting boundary between life and art, Onoto Watanna reveals the conflicting stories, personal tempests, and remarkable accomplishments of a woman whose career was sensational in every sense.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
The Asian American Experience
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252073885
SKU
V9780252073885
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Diana Birchall
Diana Birchall is a story analyst at Warner Bros. Studios and the author of Mrs. Darcy's Dilemma and Mrs. Elton in America

Reviews for Onoto Watanna: The Story of Winnifred Eaton
"Birchall, a novelist and Warner Brothers story analyst, reports the life of her 'bad grandmother' in straightforward and heartfelt prose, offering both a fascinating life story and a social history of fin de siecle literary life in New York."
Globe and Mail "A scholarly work as well as a delight to read."
Ginny Lee, Multicultural Review "Birchall's engaging biography of her grandmother will ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Onoto Watanna: The Story of Winnifred Eaton


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