Yoshiko Uchida (1921–1992) frequently focused on the experiences of Asian Americans in her writing. Her books for young people include Picture Bride and Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family. In this latter work, Uchida wrote from her own experience about the Japanese internment camps. Uchida was a senior at the University of California, Berkeley, when the government ordered people of Japanese descent to be incarcerated. Just like the family in "The Bracelet," she and her family were first sent to a detention center at the Tanforan racetrack in California and were later moved to a guarded camp called Topaz in Utah.