THE AUTHOR

MEET YOSHIKO UCHIDA:WAS BORN IN 1912 . SHE GREW UP IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DURNING THE GREAT DEPRECION OF THE 1930s.UCIDA STARTED WRITING STORYES WHEN SHE WAS TEN YERAS OLD,AND SHE NEVER STOPPED.

AS A CHIELD OF JAPANESE IMMIGRANTS TO THE UNITEDE STATES, ALL OF YOSHIKO UCHIDAS STORYES ARE ABAUT JAPANESE CULTURE OR THE JAPANESE-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.

THE WISE OLD WOMAN WAS YOSHIKO UCHIDAS LAST BOOK FOR YOUNG PEPOLE BEFORE HER DEATH IN 1992.