As per our current Database, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is 90 years, 2 months and 26 days old. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston will celebrate 91rd birthday on a Friday 26th of September 2025. Below we countdown to Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston |
| Occupation | Memoirist |
| Age | 90 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Libra |
| Born | September 26, 1934 (Inglewood, CA) |
| Birthday | September 26 |
| Town/City | Inglewood, CA |
| Nationality | CA |
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
Famous for her 1973 memoir Farewell to Manzanar, which describes her time as a prisoner of a World War II-era internment camp for Japanese Americans, Houston is also notable for her later works Beyond Manzanar and Other Views of Asian-American Womanhood (1985) and Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (1984).
After graduating from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, she entered the journalism and sociology programs at San Jose State University.
In 2002, her bestselling autobiographical work became part of the curriculum at close to 9,000 California schools.
The youngest of ten children, she was born in Inglewood, California, to Japanese immigrants Ko and Misa Wakatsuki. Her marriage to her Future Farewell to Manzanar co-author, James D. Houston, produced children named Joshua, Corinne, and Gabrielle.
The 1976 television movie adaptation of her memoir stars Japanese American actor Yuki Shimoda.
