Linda Sue Park
Linda Sue Park, the daughter of Korean immigrants, has been writing poems and stories since she was four years old. After earning degrees from universities in California and in Great Britain, Ms. Park worked as a food journalist and taught English as a Second Language until she realized that what she really wanted to do was write books for children. Her third book, A Single Shard (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), won the 2002 Newbery Medal and her latest book is When My Name Was Keoko (Houghton Mifflin, 2002). Linda Sue Park lives in Rochester, New York.
