O My Korea!
A native of North Korea, Mr. Kim teas at Seoul University in 1950, when the Korean War broke out. As a volunteer in the army of South Korea, he served first with the Koreans and then with the American forces. Later he came to the United States and attended Middlebury College and the University of Iowa, where he wrote most of THE MARTYRED.He holds master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins, Iowa, and Harvard, and is now teaching at the University of Massachusetts. Last spring he received a Guggenheim award for work on a new novel.