Sanae Kawaguchi, also known as Sanae Moorehead, was born in California of Japanese immigrant parents and lived through the evacuation of the Japanese from the West Coast during WWII. How the family escaped incarceration by "voluntarily" moving to Utah was the basis of her novel, "A Time Of Innocence" based on her experiences, but fictionalized to include the larger scope of the Japanese experience of the Japanese-Americans at the time. Going against strict parental cultural mores, as a teenager, she ran away to New York to study with Martha Graham. After eight years, a severed Achilles tendon