Sources
| Source | ID | Link | Books | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GoodReads | 30798 | not fetched yet | 33 | 3 (9%) |
| GoogleBooks | no author ID (search by name) | https://books.google.com/books?q=inauthor:%22Naomi%20Hirahara%22 | 0 | 0 |
| Amazon | no author ID (search by name) | https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ANaomi%20Hirahara | 3 | 3 (100%) |
Most recent book on record
Date: 2026-02-17
About
Naomi Hirahara is the USA Today-bestselling and award-winning author of multiple mystery series, noir short stories, nonfiction history books and one middle-grade novel. Her Edgar Award-winning Mas Arai series features a Los Angeles gardener and Hiroshima survivor. Her first historical mystery, CLARK AND DIVISION, which follows a Japanese American family from Manzanar to Chicago in 1944, won a Mary Higgins Clark Award in 2022. Her two other series star a young mixed race female LAPD bicycle cop, Ellie Rush, and a Filipina-Japanese American woman in Kaua'i, Lellani Santiago. She also has written a middle-grade book, 1001 CRANES. In 2025, the history book she co-wrote with Geraldine Knatz, TERMINAL ISLAND: LOST COMMUNITIES ON AMERICA'S EDGE, won a California Book Award gold medal. She, her husband and their rat terrier live happily in her birthplace of Pasadena, California.