A graduate of Culver-Stockton College, Michiko Niikuni Wilson re-
ceived an M.A. in Japanese literature and a Ph.D. in comparative liter-
ature from the University of Texas at Austin. She has taught at the
University of Texas at Austin, the University of California at Davis,
and since 1977 the University of Virginia, where she is an associate
professor of Japanese language and comparative literature.

Professor Wilson has published papers on various aspects of Japa-
nese and comparative literature. Her most recent work is a translation
(with Michael K. Wilson) of Ōe Kenzaburo novel The Pinch Runner
Memorandum.

Of related interest--

THE PINCH RUNNER MEMORANDUM
by Ōe Kenzaburo, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature

"A maelstrom of a novel: haunting, delirious, hypnotic and extremely
funny. With devastating contemporary originality, Ōe explodes the
nuclear family into bits and reassembles it into a startling new
combination--the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son it will be
hard to forget."

-- Ariel Dorfman, author of Death and the Maiden

"Those who know Oe will be delighted with this vintage grotesque
realism where cosmic laughter lights up his meticulous critical
engagement. Those who don't will instantly recognize the sure hand of
one of the world's greatest fiction writers today."

-- Masao Miyoshi, University of California, San Diego

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