Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, whose acclaimed memoir “Farewell to Manzanar” recounted her childhood years in a crowded, barbed wire-fringed detention center, bringing renewed attention to the trauma she and thousands of other imprisoned Japanese Americans experienced during World War II, died Dec. 21 at her home in Santa Cruz, California. She was 90.
Her son, Joshua D. Houston, confirmed the death but did not provide a cause.
Ms. Houston was 7 when she and her family were uprooted from their Southern California home and sent to Manzanar, a dusty, windswept prison camp hastily constructed at the foot of the Sierra Nevada. She spent more than three years there, living under military guard with her parents, nine siblings and some 10,000 other Japanese Americans, before being released in 1945 at the end of the war…