Paul Yoon

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Paul Yoon (born 1980 in New York City) is an American fiction writer. In 2010 The National Book Foundation named him a 5 Under 35 honoree.

Yoon graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1998[1] and Wesleyan University in 2002.[2][3] His first book, Once the Shore, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book,[4] a Los Angeles Times,[5] San Francisco Chronicle,[6] Publishers Weekly,[7] Minneapolis Star Tribune[8] Best Book of the Year, and a National Public Radio Best Debut of the Year.[9] His work has appeared in the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories,[10] and he is the recipient of a 5 under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation.[11] His novel, Snow Hunters, won the 2014 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. [12] Recently a part of the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars, Yoon now teaches at Harvard University.[13]

Bibliography

  • 2017: The Mountain (short stories) ISBN 978-1501154089
  • 2013: Snow Hunters (novel) ISBN 978-1476714813[14]
  • 2009: Once the Shore (short stories) ISBN 978-1932511703

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