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Lawson Fusao Inada was born on 26 May, 1938 in Fresno, California, United States, is a Japanese American poet (born 1938). Discover Lawson Fusao Inada's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Occupation poet
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 26 May 1938
Birthday 26 May
Birthplace Fresno, California, United States
Nationality United States

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1938

Lawson Fusao Inada (born May 26, 1938) is a Japanese American poet.

He was the fifth poet laureate of the state of Oregon.

Born May 26, 1938, Inada is a third-generation Japanese American (Sansei).

His father, Fusaji, worked as a dentist, while his mother, Masako, helped run the family fish market in Fresno's Chinatown.

1942

In May 1942, at the age of three years, Inada and his family were interned for the duration of World War II at camps in Fresno, the Jerome War Relocation Center in Arkansas, and Granada War Relocation Center in Colorado.

After the war, the Inadas returned to Fresno and once again ran the fish market, having trusted the business to family friends who operated it on their behalf during their confinement.

Following the war, Inada became a jazz musician, a bassist, following the work of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Billie Holiday, to whom he would later write tributes in his works.

Inada cites jazz and his time in the internment camps as his chief influences as a poet.

He studied writing at the Fresno State University, the University of Oregon, and the University of Iowa.

1962

Inada's first teaching job was at the University of New Hampshire, from 1962 to 1965.

1966

He moved to Oregon and earned an MFA from the University of Oregon in 1966, beginning teaching poetry at Southern Oregon University later that year.

1994

In 1994, Inada's Legends from Camp won an American Book Award, and he has received several poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

1997

He also won the 1997 Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry.

2006

In 2006 Inada was named Oregon's fifth poet laureate, the first person to fill the position since William Stafford in 1990.

2010

He was succeeded by Paulann Petersen in 2010.