Ken Mochizuki

Ken Mochizuki is the author of the award-winning and best-selling picture books Baseball Saved Us, Heroes, and Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story.

He is also the author of the picture book Be Water, My Friend: The Early Years of Bruce Lee and the young adult novel Beacon Hill Boys. Mochizuki also wrote Within the Silence, a performance piece about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, which is still being performed nationally, as well as a musical version of Baseball Saved Us, which is also still being staged.

Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, he received a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Washington, worked as a print journalist and has also authored several histories of families in the Pacific Northwest. He is currently at work on Michi Changes History, a middle-grade biography for Norton Young Readers on Michi Nishiura Weglyn, a Japanese American incarcerated during World War II who went on to have an illustrious career as a costume designer for the New York stage and TV, then abruptly switched careers to write a seminal history book which influenced the course of American history.

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