Choi, Sook Nyul (1937–)
Choi, Sook Nyul (1937–)
Korean-American children's writer and memoirist. Born 1937 in Pyongyang, North Korea; immigrated to US (1958); graduate of Manhattanville College; children: 2 daughters.
Taught high school in New York City schools; books, which offer a fictionalized account of her childhood escape from North Korea and life in US, include Year of Impossible Goodbyes (1991), Echoes of the White Giraffe (1993) and Gathering of Pearls (1994).
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