I spent three years in Japan (1990-1993), as the first American and first woman to serve as visiting professor of English at Shizuoka University, where I taught much and learned more. This groundbreaking experience informed my first novel, American Fuji, which was a book club pick of the Honolulu Advertiser and a nominee for the Kiriyama Prize. The story of American Fuji is purely fiction but the details about Japan were all real. My blog shows how my observations informed my writing. For more about me, please visit my personal website at http://www.sarabacker.com or http://americanfuji.blogspot.com.I made a guide for Amazon: So You'd Like to . . .learn more about AMERICAN FUJI? In it, I recommend music, movies, and books that add to the world of my novel.