Julie Checkoway
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Description
Julie Checkoway is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in the North American Review, Iowa Review, and Threepenny Review, and has been listed in Best American Short Stories of 1991. She has worked in radio with NPR and directed the documentary Watch Waiting for Hockney.
Books
Little sister
Thirteen-year-old Fujiwara no Mitsuko, daughter of a noble family in the imperial court of twelfth century Japan, enlists the help of a shape-shifter and other figures from Japanese mythology in her efforts to save her older sister's life.
The three-year swim club
The inspirational story of a group of impoverished children who were transformed into champion swimmers. In 1937 an ordinary grammar school teacher on the island of Maui took a group of underprivileged children, mostly of Japanese ancestry, and in three short years transformed them into Olympic champions.