Mari Yoriko Sabusawa Michener was born on July 10,1920 to Harry and Riki Sabusawa in Las Animas, Colorado. Her father Harry, a melon farmer, moved the family to California in 1925. During World War II the family was placed in a Japanese internment camp at the Santa Anita race track in California and then transferred to Granada Relocation Camp in Amache, Colorado. Mari was released from Granada and attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She studied "political science and international relations" at the college, graduating in 1945. After graduation she "analyzed Japanese propaganda for the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service." As a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Mari specialized in race relations in the school's graduate sociology program. Mari worked for the American Council of Race Relations and then became an assistant editor for the American Library Association Bulletin. Mari appears to have served in this position from September 1951 to November 1955. She met James A. Michener in Chicago in 1954 while working for the American Library Assocaltion. She married James Albert Michener on October 23, 1955 in Chicago and was Michener's third wife. Mari and James A. Michener donated art to the Huntington Art Gallery at the University of Texas at Austin. She passed away of pancreatic cancer on September 25, 1994 in Austin, Texas. She left an estate of two million dollars to Antioch College. Mari Michener and her husband are buried in Austin Memorial Park Cemetery. Sources consulted: Cory, John Mackenzie, 'Memo to Members," ALA Bulletin, Vol. 45, No. 7, July-Aug. 1951, p. 238. Memo is dated 1951 July 16. ALA Bulletin, Vol. 45, No. 8, September 1951, p. 267. ALA Bulletin, Vol. 49, No. 10, Nov. 1955, p. 547. Associated Press. "Mari Michener Dead at 74." Greeley Tribune, Sept. 26, 1974, p. A5. Associated Press. "Estate of Michener's Wife Goes to Antioch." Greeley Tribune, Jan. 12, 1995, p. A2. Requested through ILL: Pettingell, David. "From a Name...To a Number: Japanese-American Tells Story of Relocation." Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine), May 9, 1994, p. 8+.