By the end of summer, Penguin reached an agreement-UW Press continues to sell the novel exclusively in the United States, and, with the Okadas’ approval, both publishers are working together to facilitate international sales.

How could they resist a good David-and-Goliath story-one man facing off against a giant multinational conglomerate? Within days, articles appeared in the national media, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NBC Asian America and the front page of the Seattle Times. Influential booksellers, including the Elliott Bay Book Company and the University Book Store, returned their copies to Penguin and reordered the long-standing edition, authorized by the Okadas, from UW Press. Statements of support appeared from prominent writers like Viet Thanh Nguyen, David Henry Hwang and Jamie Ford. The literary community responded, and Wong’s campaign to push Penguin to recognize the Okada family’s rights went viral. “What Penguin doesn’t understand is that books belong to people, to families as well as writers,” Wong wrote. On social media, he posted an image of the copyright claim he’d filed in 1976 for the author’s widow, and shared memories of his adventures as a do-it-yourself publisher, hawking copies of the novel from the trunk of his yellow Mustang. So last spring, when the publishing behemoth Penguin Random House released a new edition of one of those books, John Okada’s “No-No Boy,” while ignoring the rights of the Okada family, he knew how he would fight back. Along with a small group of writers, scholars and activists, he rediscovered and reprinted overlooked classics by Asian American authors, demonstrating to the world that Asian American literature was a distinct, proud tradition. She is currently a professor at the University of Arizona at Tucson.But Wong’s place in literary history was already secured in the 1970s, even before his first novel was published. Silko has taught English at the Navajo Community College in Tsaile, Arizona, and at the University of New Mexico. She has been named a Living Cultural Treasure by the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities Council, and has also received the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award.

Silko's honors include a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Pushcart Prize for Poetry, and a Rosewater Foundation grant. Her other novels include Gardens in the Dunes (1999), and Almanac of the Dead (1992). A child of mixed Laguna Pueblo, Mexican, and white heritage, her first novel, Ceremony (1977), was one of the first published novels by an American Indian woman. She is also a writer of short stories and fiction. Her books of poetry include Storyteller (Seaver Books, 1981), and Laguna Women Poems (1974). She attended the University of New Mexico, and graduated with honors in 1969 with a B.A. Leslie Marmon Silko was born Main Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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