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en-wikipedia-org-7358		Hisaye Yamamoto - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4130	413	65	Many of the stories have admittedly autobiographical content,[8] making references to the World War II Japanese internment camps, to life in Southern California during the 1940s and '50s, and to the experience of being a writer. Las Vegas Charley (1961)—A decades-spanning account of the life of an Issei man, the so-nicknamed "Las Vegas Charley." The story charts Charley's immigration to the United States, his marriage and early family life, his confinement in a World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans, and his subsequent migration to Las Vegas to become a dishwasher. The 1991 American Playhouse special Hot Summer Winds, was directed by Emiko Omori and was based upon two of Yamamoto's stories, "Seventeen Syllables" and "Yoneko's Earthquake."[10] "Introduction," in Hisaye Yamamoto, Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001): ix-xxiii. Woo, Elaine (February 13, 2011), "Hisaye Yamamoto dies at 89; writer of Japanese American stories", The Los Angeles Times	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7358.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7358.txt