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Ai (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Ai (pronounced “i”) was born with the name Florence Anthony; she has also used the names Pelorhanke Ai Ogawa and Florence Haynes. She describes her ancestry as being one-half Japanese, one-fourth black, one-eighth Choctaw, and one-sixteenth Irish. Her Japanese heritage derived from her father, a man with whom her mother had an extramarital affair; Ai learned about him when she was twenty-six years old. Ai spent part of her childhood in Texas with her great-grandparents and then lived in Las Vegas and San Francisco with her mother. She was raised as a Catholic and attended parochial...

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