Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Marie Myung-Ok Lee is the author of The Evening Hero , Somebody's Daughter , the YA novel Finding My Voice (heralded as the first Korean American own voices novel for teens), and middle-grade novels If It Hadn't Been for Yoon Jun and Night of the Chupacabras . Her books have won awards such as Friends of American Writers, New York Public Library's Best Books for the Teen Age, and NCTE's Children's Choice. She has been a judge for the National Book Awards, a Fulbright Fellow, and one of the few...See more
Marie Myung-Ok Lee is the author of The Evening Hero , Somebody's Daughter , the YA novel Finding My Voice (heralded as the first Korean American own voices novel for teens), and middle-grade novels If It Hadn't Been for Yoon Jun and Night of the Chupacabras . Her books have won awards such as Friends of American Writers, New York Public Library's Best Books for the Teen Age, and NCTE's Children's Choice. She has been a judge for the National Book Awards, a Fulbright Fellow, and one of the few Korean American journalists allowed into North Korea. She currently teaches creative writing as a writer-in-residence at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race. She has an adult son on the autistic spectrum who helped to inspire her latest novel. See less
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