Ken Mochizuki

Ken Mochizuki was born in Seatle, Washington. He attended the University of Washington and earned a bachelor's degree in communications. Afer graduating, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. After living there for 5 years, he moved back to Seattle and became a writer. He became a staff reporter and editor for the "International examiner" newspaper in Seattle, Washington. He has published 4 books. His first, "Baseball Saved Us", published in 1993, about a Japanese-American boy during World War II. Along with his family, he is in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans. He establishes a camp baseball league to help pass the time for he and his fellow internees. This story has been made into a play and has been performed on stage at schools in the Seattle area. Other books followed. "Heros" in 1997,which honors our veterans; "Beacon Hill Boys" in 2002. A novel based on his high school days, in Seattle, during the early 70s. His fourth, ""Pasage to Freedom; The Sugihara Story" in 2003. This is a novel about Chiune Sugihara; A man who has often been referred to as "The Japanese Oskar Schindler". In 1999, the United States Army hired him to give presentations on the history of Asian Americans in the United States Military. Currently, he lives in Seattle, Washington and is a full-time author, a free-lance writer and travels extensively to speak to students, teachers and librarians, about his work.