The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan

Donald Richie was born in Lima, Ohio, in 1924 and has lived in Japan since 1947, except for time at Columbia University in the early 1950s and as curator of film at New York's Museum of Modern art in 1968-73. The author of some thirty books and dozens of essays, Richie is especially well known for his instrumental role in introducing Japanese film to the West and for his travel memoir The Inland Sea, which has been adapted into a popular PBS documentary. Donald Richie still lives and writes in Tokyo Arturo Silva is an American writer who lived in Japan for eighteen years. He currently resides in ViennaDonald Richie is the author of 'The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan', published 2001 under ISBN 9781880656587 and ISBN 1880656582.