Career
In 1957 she became the first foreigner selected to participate in Utakai Hajime, the Imperial New Year’s Poetry Reading of Japan. Nixon died in 1963. She authored a number of books Among them are: The Choice is Always Ours: The Classic Anthology on the Spiritual Way, Dorothy B. Phillips (Editor), Nixon (Editor), Elizabeth B. Howes (Editor) Sounds from the unknown.
A collection of Japanese-American tanka, Nixon (Editor), Tomoe Tana Young ranchers at Oak Valley Living in Japan An elementary school in Palo Alto currently bears her name.