Author

Julie Otsuka

5 books, mostly general, for Random House Audio and Penguin, 2003–2022

Julie Otsuka is a Japanese American novelist who studied art at Yale, worked as a painter, and later earned an MFA from Columbia before turning to writing. Her novels include When the Emperor Was Divine (2002), based partly on her family’s experience of Japanese American incarceration during World War II; The Buddha in the Attic (2011), about Japanese picture brides; and The Swimmers (2022). Her work has received major honors including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.