Paul Yoon
American writer (born 1980)
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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. He is the recipient of the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship.[1]
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| Born | 1980 (age 45–46) New York, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, novelist |
| Education | Phillips Exeter Academy |
| Alma mater | Wesleyan University |
| Notable works | Run Me to Earth (2020) |
| Spouse | Laura van den Berg |
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Early life and education
Yoon's grandfather was a North Korean refugee who resettled in South Korea, where he later founded an orphanage.[2][3] Yoon graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1998[4] and Wesleyan University in 2002.[5][6]
Career
His first book, Once the Shore, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book;[7] a Los Angeles Times,[8] San Francisco Chronicle,[9] Publishers Weekly,[10] and Minneapolis Star Tribune[11] Best Book of the Year; and a National Public Radio Best Debut of the Year.[12] His work has appeared in the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories collection,[13] and he is the recipient of a 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation.[14] His novel Snow Hunters won the 2014 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award.[15] His 2023 story collection, The Hive and the Honey, won The Story Prize for short story collections published in 2023.[16]
Recently[when?] a part of the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars, Yoon is now a Briggs-Copeland lecturer at Harvard University.[17]
Personal life
Yoon lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, Laura van den Berg.[18]
Bibliography
Novels
- 2013: Snow Hunters, ISBN 9781476714813[19]
- 2020: Run Me to Earth, ISBN 9781501154041[20]
Short story collections
- 2009: Once the Shore, ISBN 9781932511703
- 2017: The Mountain, ISBN 9781501154089
- 2023: The Hive and the Honey