Korean American writers
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Korean American
literature treats a wide range of topics including Korean life in America, the interesction of American and Korean culture in the lives of young Korean Americans, as well as life and history on the Korean peninsula.
Korean American
Korean Americans are Americans of Korean descent, mostly from South Korea, with a small minority from North Korea...
literature treats a wide range of topics including Korean life in America, the interesction of American and Korean culture in the lives of young Korean Americans, as well as life and history on the Korean peninsula.
Korean American writers
- Jung-hyo Ahn
- Matthew J. BaekMatthew J. BaekMatthew J. Baek is a Korean-American illustrator, children's book author, and graphic designer working as a government contractor for USAID...
- Haemi BalgassiHaemi BalgassiHaemi Balgassi is a Korean American writer. She was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Western Massachusetts, where she now resides with her husband and their daughters....
- Theresa Hak Kyung ChaTheresa Hak Kyung ChaTheresa Hak Kyung Cha was an Korean American novelist and artist most famous for her 1982 work, Dictee....
(1951–1982) - Leonard ChangLeonard ChangLeonard Chang is a Korean American writer of short stories and novels.His short stories have appeared in a variety of literary journals including The Crescent Review, The Literary Review, and Prairie Schooner...
- Alexander CheeAlexander CheeAlexander Chee is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.Born in Rhode Island, he spent his childhood in South Korea, Kauai, Truk, Guam and Maine...
- Susan ChoiSusan ChoiSusan Choi is an American novelist. Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana to a Korean father and the American daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. When she was nine years old, her parents divorced. She and her mother moved to Houston, Texas. Choi earned a B.A. in Literature from Yale University ...
- Daniel ChunDaniel ChunDaniel Chun is an American comedy writer. He has written for The Office and The Simpsons. He received a Writers Guild Award nomination and an Annie Award for his work on The Simpsons. He is now Head Writer and Co-Executive Producer of The Office...
- Heinz Insu FenklHeinz Insu Fenkl- Academic work :Fenkl is an associate professor of English and Asian Studies at SUNY New Paltz. He previously served as coordinator of the school's Creative Writing Program and was director of the now-defunct ISIS: The Interstitial Studies Institute .Before his appointment to his current position...
- Cathy Park HongCathy Park HongCathy Park Hong is an American writer born in Los Angeles, California, USA. Much of her work includes mixed language and serialized narrative.-Life:She is a graduate of Oberlin College and has an MFA from Iowa Writers Workshop...
- Y. Euny HongY. Euny HongY. Euny Hong is a Korean American journalist and writer. Ms. Hong was born in New Jersey, the United States. At age 12, she moved to Seoul, Korea with her family, and later returned to the US to attend college. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A...
- Minsoo KangMinsoo Kang (historian and writer)Minsoo Kang is a historian and writer. Currently, he is an assistant professor of European intellectual history in the Department of History at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Kang is also an expert on the history of automata in science and in fiction.Kang has published numerous books and...
- Younghill KangYounghill KangYounghill Kang was an important early Asian American writer. He is best known for his 1931 novel The Grass Roof and its sequel, the 1937 fictionalized memoir East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee. He has been called "the father of Korean American literature."- Life and career :As a...
(1903–1972) - Nora Okja KellerNora Okja KellerNora Okja Keller is a Korean American author. Her 1997 breakthrough work of fiction, Comfort Woman, and the 2002 sequel, Fox Girl, focus on multigenerational trauma resulting from Korean women's experiences as sex slaves, euphemistically called comfort women, for Japanese troops during World War...
- Derek Kirk Kim
- Elizabeth KimElizabeth KimElizabeth Kim is the pen name of an American journalist who authored the controversial book Ten Thousand Sorrows, which she describes as a memoir.-Early life:...
- Mike Kim
- Myung Mi Kim
- Nancy KimNancy KimNancy Kim is a Korean American novelist. She was born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Los Angeles. She is a corporate lawyer in San Francisco and the author of the novel Chinhominey's Secret. The title is a misspelling of the Korean word for "paternal grandmother", chinhalmeoni...
- Patti KimPatti Kim (writer)Patti Kim is a Korean American writer, a Diane Cleaver fellow and the author of the award winning novel A Cab Called Reliable.-Biography:...
(1970-*) - Richard E. KimRichard E. KimRichard Eun Kook Kim was a Korean-American writer and professor of literature. He was the author of The Martyred , The Innocent , and Lost Names , and many other works. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and was a recipient of a Fulbright grant...
- Ronyoung KimRonyoung KimRonyoung Kim , aka Kim Ronyoung, was the pen name of Gloria Hahn, a Korean American writer. She was born and raised to Korean immigrants in Los Angeles's Koreatown and died not long after finishing Clay Walls , a Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel about a Korean family that leaves Japanese-occupied...
(1926–1987) - Suji Kwock KimSuji Kwock Kim-Life:She graduated from Yale College; the Iowa Writers' Workshop; Seoul National University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar; and Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow....
- Suki KimSuki KimSuki Kim is a Korean American writer, a 2006 Guggenheim fellow and the author of the award winning novel The Interpreter.-Biography and work:...
- Chang-Rae LeeChang-Rae LeeChang-rae Lee is a Korean American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Princeton University, where he has served as the director of Princeton's Program in Creative Writing.-Early life:...
- Don LeeDon Lee (author)Don Lee is an American novelist who spent his childhood in Tokyo and Seoul as the son of a State Department officer. He received his B.A. in English Literature from University of California, Los Angeles and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Emerson College. He has also served as the primary...
- Ed Bok LeeEd Bok LeeEd Bok Lee is the author of Real Karaoke People, a national best-seller in poetry and winner of a PEN/Open Book Award, an Asian American Literary Award , and a Many Voices Prize. Lee's second book is entitled Whorled .Lee was born in Fargo, North Dakota and raised in South Korea, North Dakota, and...
- Helie Lee
- Lauren LeeLauren LeeLauren Lee is a Korean American children book writer. Lee was born in Chicago and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She went to college at Northwestern University, and went on to obtain a master degree in English Education from the University of Chicago...
- Marie LeeMarie LeeMarie Myung-Ok Lee , www.uni-giessen.de, Retrieved September 20, 2011 is an American author and essayist....
- Mary Paik LeeMary Paik LeeMary Paik Lee was a Korean American writer. She was born Paik Kuang-Sun in Pyongyang, now the capital of North Korea. She left Korea with her family in 1905, arriving in Hawaii in May that year. In December 1906, after experiencing extreme discrimination in Hawaii, the family moved to California,...
- Min Jin Lee
- Walter K. LewWalter K. LewWalter K. Lew is a Korean American poet and scholar. He teaches in creative writing at the University of Miami. He is the author of the award winning book: Treadwinds: poems and intermedia texts....
- Nami MunNami Mun-Life:She grew up in The Bronx.She graduated from University of California, Berkeley, and from University of Michigan, with an MFA.Her stories have been published in Granta, Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Iowa Review, Evergreen Review, Witness, Bat City Review, and Tin House.-External links:****...
- Greg PakGreg PakGreg Pak is an American New York-based film director/comic book writer, known for his work on such books featuring the Hulk.-Early life:Pak is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of the Purple Crayon improv group, and studied history at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and film at...
- Linda Sue ParkLinda Sue ParkLinda Sue Park is an American author of children's fiction. Park published her first novel, Seesaw Girl, in 1999. She has written six children’s novels and five picture books. Park’s work achieved prominence when she received the prestigious 2002 Newbery Medal for her novel A Single Shard...
- Therese ParkTherese ParkTherese Park is a Korean author, now living in the USA. An accomplished cellist, she moved to the USA to perform with the Kansas City Philharmonic in 1966...
- Marie LeeMarie LeeMarie Myung-Ok Lee , www.uni-giessen.de, Retrieved September 20, 2011 is an American author and essayist....
- Cathy-Lynn Song
- Kim SunéeKim SunéeKim Sunée is an American memoirist and food writer, known for her 2008 memoir Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home, published by Grand Central Publishing....
- Brenda Paik SunooBrenda Paik SunooBrenda Paik Sunoo is a third generation Korean-American. She is a writer and an award-winning freelance journalist, former senior editor of Workforce magazine. During the 1970s, Brenda and her husband were anti-war and human rights activists, particularly advocating for Korean unification...
- Jane Jeong TrenkaJane Jeong TrenkaJane Jeong Trenka is an activist and an award winning writer.Trenka is the president of the organization: Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea.-Biography:...
- Sung J. WooSung J. WooSung J. Woo is a Korean-American writer. He was born in Seoul, South Korea.- Personal :Woo came to the United States in 1981, when he was ten years old. He grew up in Ocean Township, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in English from Cornell University in 1994 and received his M.F.A. in Creative...
See also
- List of Asian American writers
- Asian American literatureAsian American literatureAlthough immigrants from Asia and Americans of Asian descent have been writing in the United States since the 19th century, Asian American literature as a category of writing only came into existence in the early 1970s...
- Asian American Literary AwardsAsian American Literary AwardsThe Asian American Literary Awards are a set of annual awards that have been presented by The Asian American Writers' Workshop since 1998. The awards include a set of honors for excellence in fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by a panel of literary and academic judges; a Members' Choice Award,...
- Asian/Pacific American Awards for LiteratureAsian/Pacific American Awards for LiteratureThe Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature are a set of literary awards presented annually by the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association...
External links
- http://www.international.ucla.edu/shenzhen/2002ncta/workman/eaaw/eaaw_korean.htm
- http://wwweng.uwyo.edu/mechanical/faculty/CS_Han/koramelit.html
- Korean American literature: Comprehensive bibliography of Korean American authors and their books.