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Julie Otsuka a fiction writer who attended Yale and Columbia has won many awards for her works. Her first work, When The Emperor Was Divine is a book based on her family history, the US reaction to the Pearl Harbor bombing and the affect it had on Japanese-American families. The books' popularity is astounding selling over 300,000 copies; it has been translated into eight languages.

Julie Otsuka's previous works were mostly fiction-based and less serious like comics, but her stories from the internment camps would often come up. "When The Emperor Was Divine" was her first serious fiction novel where she talked about Japanese internment camps. With her background as a painter, Julie Otsuka's attention to detail and great descriptions give the reader vivid imagery to better understand different situations throughout her novels.