Background
Paul Yoon was born in 1980 in New York City, New York, United States.
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20 Main St, Exeter, NH 03833, United States
In 1998 Paul Yoon graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy.
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Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, United States
In 2002 Paul Yoon graduated from Wesleyan University.
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20 Main St, Exeter, NH 03833, United States
In 1998 Paul Yoon graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy.
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Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, United States
In 2002 Paul Yoon graduated from Wesleyan University.
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Once the Shore: Stories
(Spanning over half a century - from the years just before...)
Spanning over half a century - from the years just before the Korean War to the present - these stories reveal an intricate and unforgettable portrait of a single island in the South Pacific. Novelistic in scope, daring in its varied environments, Once the Shore is a remarkable work of international fiction by the acclaimed author of Snow Hunters.
https://www.amazon.com/Once-Shore-Stories-Paul-Yoon-ebook/dp/B003TJALYO/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Once+the+Shore&qid=1580278894&s=books&sr=1-1
2009
Snow Hunters
(Snow Hunters traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, w...)
Snow Hunters traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, who defects from his country at the end of the Korean War, leaving his friends and family behind to seek a new life on the coast of Brazil. Throughout his years there, four people slip in and out of his life: Kiyoshi, the Japanese tailor for whom he works; Peixe, the groundskeeper at the town church; and two vagrant children named Santi and Bia. Yohan longs to connect with these people, but to do so he must let go of his traumatic past.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A285UO6/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1
2013
The Mountain: Stories
(In The Mountain, award-winning and acclaimed author Paul ...)
In The Mountain, award-winning and acclaimed author Paul Yoon reveals his subtle, ethereal, and strikingly observant style with six thematically linked stories, taking place across several continents and time periods and populated with characters who are connected by their traumatic pasts, newly vagrant lives, and quests for solace in their futures. Though they exist in their own distinct worlds (from a sanatorium in the Hudson Valley to an inn in the Russian far east) they are united by the struggle to reconcile their traumatic pasts in the wake of violence, big and small, spiritual and corporeal. A morphine-addicted nurse wanders through the decimated French countryside in search of purpose; a dissatisfied wife sporadically takes a train across Spain with a much younger man in the wake of a building explosion; a lost young woman emigrates from Korea to Shanghai, where she aimlessly works in a camera sweat shop, trying fruitlessly to outrun the ghosts of her past.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M740TQX/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2
2017
Run Me to Earth
(Alisak, Prany, and Noi - three orphans united by devastat...)
Alisak, Prany, and Noi - three orphans united by devastating loss - must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across the fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07THDJSGV/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
2020
Paul Yoon
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In 1998 Paul Yoon graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Wesleyan University in 2002.
Career
Paul Yoon is a former fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and his stories have appeared in Harper's Magazine, VQR, the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American Short Stories. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is currently a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University.
He is a recipient of fellowships from the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars and the National Endowment for the Arts. Yoon is the author of two story collections, Once the Shore (2009), which was a New York Times Notable Book, and The Mountain (2017), which was a National Public Radio Best Book of the Year. His novel Snow Hunters (2013) won the Young Lions Fiction Award. In 2020 Run Me to Earth was published.
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The Mountain: Stories
(In The Mountain, award-winning and acclaimed author Paul ...)
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Snow Hunters
(Snow Hunters traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, w...)
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Once the Shore: Stories
(Spanning over half a century - from the years just before...)
2009 -
Run Me to Earth
(Alisak, Prany, and Noi - three orphans united by devastat...)
2020
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The Mountain: Stories
Connections
Paul Yoon is married to Laura van den Berg, a fiction writer.
