American writer (born 1980)
Paul Yoon (born 1980) is an American fiction writer. In 2010 The National Book Foundation named him a 5 Under 35 honoree.
Early life and education
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]
Career
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, was named a finalist for The Story Prize.[15]
Recently[when?] a part of the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars, Yoon is now a Briggs-Copeland lecturer at Harvard University.[16]
