Karin Tanabe is a historical fiction novelist who is best known for her works ''The Gilded Years: A Novel'', a novel about the first
African-American graduate of
Vassar College, and ''The Diplomat's Daughter: A Novel'', a love story set in a
Japanese American internment
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* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
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has described her as a "master of historical fiction".
Biography
Tanabe is a first-generation American who grew up in
Washington, D.C. with foreign parents.
Her father Kunio Francis Tanabe is from Yokohama and is the former ''Book World'' art director and senior editor at the
Washington Post. Tanabe holds American and Belgian passports and speaks French and English.
Tanabe graduated from
Vassar College and currently lives in
Washington, D.C. with her husband, daughter, and son. Until 2017, she was a reporter at
Politico.
List of works
* ''The List: A Novel'' (2013) - a novel about a young reporter inspired by Tanabe's experiences at
Politico
* ''The Price of Inheritance: A Novel'' (2014) - a drama set in the high-end antique furniture world
* ''The Gilded Years: A Novel'' (2016) - a historical fiction novel about the first
African-American graduate of
Vassar College
* ''The Diplomat's Daughter'' (2017) - a love story set in a
Japanese American internment
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
camp
* ''A Hundred Suns: A Novel'' (2020) - a thriller set in 1930s
French Indochina
* ''A Woman of Intelligence'' (2021) -
Cold War
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spy novel
References
Living people
American writers of Japanese descent
American women writers of Asian descent
21st-century American women writers
American historical fiction writers
Vassar College alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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