BookDragon East-West House: Noguchi’s Childhood in Japan Tag

31 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese American, Nonfiction

Born in Los Angeles to a Scotch-Irish American mother, Leonie Gilmour, and a missing Japanese father, the young boy who would grow up to be Isamu Noguchi moved as toddler to Japan to join his estranged father. When Gilmour realized that the older Noguchi already had...