Janice Nimura

Author

Janice Nimura received a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of her work on “The Doctors Blackwell,” a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Her previous book, “Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back,” was a New York Times Notable book in 2015. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in such publications as the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and Smithsonian. She is currently a Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University.