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Say, Allen

LC control no.n 78092884
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3569.A936
PZ7.S2744 ViU
Personal name headingSay, Allen
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Variant(s)Seii, James Allen Koichi Moriwaki
LocatedPortland (Or.)
Birth date1937-08-28
Place of birthYokohama-shi (Japan)
Profession or occupationAuthor Illustrator
Found inAntoninus, Brother. A canticle to the waterbirds 1968.
Biog. resource center, Mar. 14, 2005 (Contemp. authors: Allen Say; b. Aug. 28, 1937; St. James Guide to Children's Writers: Allen Say; b. Aug. 28, 1937, Yokohama, Japan; moved to the U.S., 1953)
Houghton Mifflin Books, via WWW, June 13, 2012 (Asian American author and illustrator; studied cartooning with Noro Shinpei from age 12 to 16; immigrated to America in 1953; studied at Chouinard Art Institute and Art Center College of Design; studied architecture at UC Berkeley)
Drawing from memory, 2011: dust jacket (lives in Portland, Oregon)
Wikipedia, Mar. 16, 2016 (Allen Say (born James Allen Koichi Moriwaki Seii in 1937; surname written Seii (清井) in Japanese) is an Asian American writer and illustrator. Allen Say was born in Yokohama, Japan, to a Japanese family: a Japanese American mother born in San Francisco and a Korean father who was adopted by British parents and raised in Shanghai. Say has lived in Portland, Oregon since 1999.)
Associated languageeng