

The diarist introduced herself as “Miss Morning Glory” half-way through the serial, adding, “That’s my humble name, sir.

Yet the name of the author was nowhere to be found.
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When “The American Diary of a Japanese Girl” was published as a serial in “Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly” in November 1901, there was a line below the title, “With Illustrations by Genjiro Yetto”. Introduction The story behind the publication of Yone Noguchi’s “The American Diary of a Japanese Girl”-“he first American novel by a writer of Japanese ancestry”-is perhaps as curious as the text itself.
