Karin Tanabe

Karin Tanabe is a historical fiction novelist who is best known for her works "The Gilded Years: A Novel", a novel about the first African-American graduate of Vassar College, and "The Diplomat's Daughter: A Novel", a love story set in a Japanese American internment camp. National Public Radio has described her as a "master of historical fiction".
Biography.
Tanabe is a first-generation American who grew up in Washington, D.C. with foreign parents. Her father is the former "Book World" editor at the Washington Post.
Tanabe graduated from Vassar College and currently lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and daughter. Until 2017, she was a reporter at Politico.