Nancy Andrew

August 17, 1947 (age 51)

Dallas, Texas, Andrew

Born in Dallas, Texas, Andrew was the only child of Doctor Warren Andrew (1910–1982), who later chaired the Department of Anatomy at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and Nancy Valerie Miellmier Andrew (1914–1993), later a secretary with the Indiana State Anatomical Board. Graduating from Shortridge High School in Indianapolis in 1965, she studied East Asian languages at Indiana University in Bloomington and Waseda University in Tokyo. After receiving an honors degree from Indiana in 1969, she began graduate study at the Harvard Yenching Institute, where her faculty adviser was Edwin O. Reischauer, former United States Ambassador to Japan, and where she was an editor of Stone Lion Review, published by the East Asian Graduate Students Colloquium. While doing research for her doctoral dissertation on the feminist movement in Japan, Andrew abandoned her academic studies to work as a translator for Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation. Her translation of Murakami"s surrealistic novel of post-war life in Japan was published in 1977.

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Harvard University; Indiana University.

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Born in Dallas, Texas, Andrew was the only child of Doctor Warren Andrew (1910–1982), who later chaired the Department of Anatomy at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and Nancy Valerie Miellmier Andrew (1914–1993), later a secretary with the Indiana State Anatomical Board. Graduating from Shortridge High School in Indianapolis in 1965, she studied East Asian languages at Indiana University in Bloomington and Waseda University in Tokyo. After receiving an honors degree from Indiana in 1969, she began graduate study at the Harvard Yenching Institute, where her faculty adviser was Edwin O. Reischauer, former United States Ambassador to Japan, and where she was an editor of Stone Lion Review, published by the East Asian Graduate Students Colloquium.

While doing research for her doctoral dissertation on the feminist movement in Japan, Andrew abandoned her academic studies to work as a translator for Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation.

Her translation of Murakami"s surrealistic novel of post-war life in Japan was published in 1977.

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