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.[1] National Public Radio has described her as a "master of historical fiction".[2]

Karin Tanabe
Born	United States
Alma mater	Vassar College
Notable works	The Gilded Years: A Novel, The Diplomat's Daughter: A Novel

Biography

Tanabe is a first-generation American who grew up in Washington, D.C. with foreign parents.[2] Her father Kunio Francis Tanabe is from Yokohama[3] and is the former Book World art director at the Washington Post.[4] Tanabe holds American and Belgian passports and speaks French and English.[5]

Tanabe graduated from Vassar College and currently lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, daughter, and son. Until 2017, she was a reporter at Politico.[6][7]

List of works

• The List: A Novel (2013) - a novel about a young reporter inspired by Tanabe's experiences at Politico
• The Price of Inheritance: A Novel (2014) - a drama set in the high-end antique furniture world
• The Gilded Years: A Novel (2016) - a historical fiction novel about the first African-American graduate of Vassar College
• The Diplomat's Daughter (2017) - a love story set in a Japanese American internment camp
• A Hundred Suns: A Novel (2020) - a thriller set in 1930s French Indochina
• A Woman of Intelligence (2021) - Cold War spy novel

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