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Iris Yamashita is a Japanese-American screenwriter and novelist. She was born in Missouri and studied engineering at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego as well as virtual reality at University of Tokyo while pursuing fiction writing as a hobby.
Iris Yamashita is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and the author of the new thriller "City Under One Roof" and "Village in the Dark". Her books are set in Alaska and feature Detective Cara Kennedy and Mia Upash, who face mysterious and dangerous crimes.
Feb 13, 2021 · Iris is the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for the script "Letters From Iwo Jima" directed by Clint Eastwood. The film was nominated for 4 Oscars including “Best Picture” and “Best Original Screenplay.”. City Under One Roof is her debut mystery novel and the first in the Cara Kennedy series, set in a tiny Alaskan town where all ...
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Iris Yamashita is an Academy Award nominated screenwriter and an Anthony and Barry Award nominated mystery author. She wrote the script Letters From Iwo Jima for Clint Eastwood and the Cara Kennedy series set in Alaska.
- A Born Storyteller
- Lightning Strikes Twice
- Fiction from Fact
- Down The Rabbit Hole
Readers like to think authors spring fully formed from college-level English classes, but many (if not most) hold down unrelated jobs before writing their first work of fiction. John Grisham was a lawyer. Stephen Kingwas a teacher. And Iris Yamashita was an engineer. “Yeah, I had Asian parents,” she says with a laugh. “And they were kind of strict ...
It started with a documentary. Some 20 odd years ago, Yamashita sat down to watch a documentary about a remote Alaskan town where most of the residents lived in a World War II–era building once belonging to the U.S. military. The story stayed in her subconscious until a few years ago. “I always remembered that place because it was so fascinating, a...
Like earning an Oscar nomination for her first screenplay, cinching a book deal for her partially written book—practically unheard of for debut authors—was a lightning-strike moment. But Yamashita had put in the work, starting with the setting: Point Mettier, a fictionalized version of Whittier, Alaska. It reads like a living, breathing character i...
Yamashita isn’t the only one who tumbled down the proverbial rabbit hole during the journey to the remote town. Protagonist Cara Kennedy has an Alice in Wonderland moment of her own as she plunges into the dark tunnel. It’s a deliberate reference, and Yamashita says the book is filled with other subtle nods to Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s boo...
A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a single high-rise building, in this gripping debut by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Iris Yamashita.
Cara Kennedy Series by Iris Yamashita. 2 primary works • 2 total works. Anchorage Detective Cara Kennedy. Book 1. City Under One Roof. by Iris Yamashita. 3.54 · 5,606 Ratings · 885 Reviews · published 2023 · 11 editions. A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a … Want to Read. Rate it: Book 2. Village in the Dark. by Iris Yamashita.
