Her work mainly focuses on historical fiction. She also had this great idea of writing her first children’s book Seesaw Girl. Park’s husband’s career relocated the family to the United States, where she continued to teach ESL - something she still does to this day. Throughout her busy life and many job changes, her love of writing flourished. Happily married with two children, Park worked at an advertising agency, then became an ESL teacher to college students, and later worked as a food journalist.
In Europe, she earned advanced degrees in literature at Trinity College and the University of London. Two years later, Linda Sue Park and her future husband packed their bags and moved to Dublin, and later to London. However, it taught her how to be more of a professional writer. Although it was an outlet to write, she was not satisfied with her profession. Upon graduation, she was a public relations writer for a major oil company. She attended Stanford University, where she earned a degree in English and competed on the gymnastics team. Park advanced through school with several other publications. To this day, the un-cashed check is still framed above his desk. She received a one dollar check for her hard work, which she gave to her father for Christmas. At the age of nine, Park had her first publication “a haiku” in Trailblazer magazine. Growing up outside of Chicago, one could often find this notorious bookworm grazing the pages of Nancy Drew, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and E. In fact, she began poetry and story writing before kindergarten at the age of four.
Linda Sue Park, Korean American author of children’s fiction, has been an avid reader and writer her entire life.
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