Paul Yoon | |
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Born | 1980 (age 43–44) New York, New York, U.S. |
Occupation | Writer, novelist |
Education | Phillips Exeter Academy |
Alma mater | Wesleyan University |
Notable works | Run Me to Earth (2020) |
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Paul Yoon (born 1980) is an American fiction writer. In 2010 The National Book Foundation named him a 5 Under 35 honoree.
Yoon's grandfather was a North Korean refugee who resettled in South Korea, where he later founded an orphanage. [1] [2] Yoon graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1998 [3] and Wesleyan University in 2002. [4] [5]
His first book, Once the Shore, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book; [6] a Los Angeles Times, [7] San Francisco Chronicle, [8] Publishers Weekly, [9] and Minneapolis Star Tribune [10] Best Book of the Year; and a National Public Radio Best Debut of the Year. [11] His work has appeared in the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories collection, [12] and he is the recipient of a 5 under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation. [13] His novel, Snow Hunters, won the 2014 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. [14] His 2023 story collection, The Hive and the Honey, won The Story Prize for short story collections published in 2023. [15]
Recently[ when? ] a part of the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars, Yoon is now a Briggs-Copeland lecturer at Harvard University. [16]
Yoon lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, Laura van den Berg. [17]
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