One Bellevue, One Book: Author Talk with Frank Abe
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Aug 9, 2025 2pm - 3:30pm
Location
Bellevue Library/KCLS
1111 110th Ave NE
Details
Local author Frank Abe will talk about his graphic history, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration.
Frank Abe is co-editor with Floyd Cheung of a new Penguin Classics anthology, The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration.
He is lead author of a graphic novel, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, a Finalist in Creative Nonfiction for the Washington State Book Award.
Abe won an American Book Award as co-editor of John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy, in which he authored the first-ever biography of Okada and traced the origins of his novel.
He also wrote and directed the award-winning PBS documentary, Conscience And The Constitution. Frank Abe helped organize the first-ever “Day of Remembrance.” He is currently developing a new stage adaptation of No-No Boy.
Book signing follows.
Third Place Books will have books available for purchase.
Registration not required. Space is limited.
A One Bellevue, One Book program. Bringing Bellevue together to read, discuss and engage with one book, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe, Tamiko F. Nimura, Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki.
Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request. Email access@kcls.org
at least seven days before the event. Automated closed captioning is always available for online events.
