LYDIA MINATOYA was born In Albany, New York in 1950. She received her PhD in psychology from the University of Maryland in 1981 and is currently a college professor. She has written about her experiences growing up as an Asian American and her travels of self-discovery in Asia in Talking to Monks in High Snow: An Asian-American Odyssey (1993). She has also published a novel, The Strangeness of Beauty (1999), about several generations of Japanese Americans who return to Japan just before World War II and view the conflict from the perspective of insiders who are also outsiders. (from Publisher)
LYDIA MINATOYA was born In Albany, New York in 1950. She received her PhD in psychology from the University of Maryland in 1981 and is currently a college professor. She has written about her experiences growing up as an Asian American and her travels of self-discovery in Asia in Talking to Monks in High Snow: An Asian-American Odyssey (1993). She has also published a novel, The Strangeness of Beauty (1999), about several generations of Japanese Americans who return to Japan just before World War II and view the conflict from the perspective of insiders who are also outsiders. (from Publisher)
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