Dale Furutani is a third-generation Japanese American (a Sansei). He is the first Asian American to win major mystery writing awards. He was born in Hilo, Hawaii, on December 1, 1946..His family is originally from Suo-Oshima Island, which is south of Hiroshima in the Sea of Japan. His grandfather and grandmother came to Hawaii in 1896 to work on the sugar plantations as indentured servants, but his grandfather soon escaped his contract and eventually became a successful fisherman until his fishing boat was taken from him during World War II. When he was five, Dale was adopted by John Flanagan and moved to California. There he met with racial prejudice for the first time, as he was virtually the only Asian in his school. Dale went to California State University, Long Beach, where he received a degree in Creative Writing, and UCLA, where he received an MBA in Marketing and Information Systems. He worked his way through undergraduate school writing articles and serving as a contributing editor for various magazines. Dale started writing book-length fiction in 1993, and Death in Little Tokyo was his first novel. It was nominated for an Agatha award, an Anthony Award and a Macavity award as Best First Mystery. It won both the Anthony and the Macavity, making Dale the first Asian American to ever win a major mystery award. His second Ken Tanaka mystery novel, The Toyotomi Blades, appeared in October, 1997. In 1998, he started a new historical series with Death at the Crossroads, the first book in a samurai mystery trilogy. Jade Palace Vendetta and Kill the Shogun, complete the trilogy. He is also the author of a pastiche set in Meiji era Japan, The Curious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in Japan, where each mystery has a unique Japanese twist to the solution. He recently penned a fourth samurai book to satisfy readers about events after the trilogy, titled The Ronin Returns. He recently wrote a Japanese version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, with the title of Makoto. This book puts a uniquely Japanese spin to a timeless story,
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