Angela Hur

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Angela Hur
Hangul 허미영[1]
Revised Romanization Heo Mi-yeong
McCune-Reischauer Hŏ Miyŏng

Angela Mi-Young Hur (born Los Angeles, California) is a Korean American author.[2][3]

Raised in Gardena, California, Hur graduated from Phillips Academy, an Andover, Massachusetts boarding school, in 1998.[2][4] She remained in Massachusetts to continue her education after high school, enrolling at Harvard University, where she majored in English. While an undergraduate, she became involved in student theater, but realized that she was more drawn to writing than acting during a project with renowned playwrights Ping Chong and Michael Rohd, then in residence at Harvard as Peter Ivers Visiting Artists.[5] In lieu of a senior thesis, she wrote a novel about a woman having her mother's diaries from Korean to English, and the love triangle among her, her mother, and the translator. Her major literary influences included Henry James, Aimee Bender, Haruki Murakami, Marguerite Duras, and Alfred Hitchcock. She received her bachelor's degree in 2002.[6][7] Later, she entered the Master of Fine Arts program at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, where she was a recipient of the university's Sparks Fellowship; she graduated in 2005.[8]

After receiving her MFA, Hur spent one year writing what would be her first published novel, The Queens of K-Town, which was released in August 2007. Anne Wyman gave The Queens of K-Town a largely favourable review in the San Francisco Chronicle, while Adelle Waldman, writing for the Village Voice, praised Hur's writing as "evocative without being obtrusive" but criticised the novel as a whole for its self-indulgence and lack of coherence.[8][9][10] Others compared The Queens of K-Town to Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides.[1][11] Hur hopes to have The Queens of K-Town published in Korean as well.[2]

Hur lived in Long Beach, California when The Queens of K-Town was published.[2] She later moved to San Francisco.[citation needed]

[edit] Works

  • Hur, Angela Mi-Young (2007), The Queens of K-Town (hardcover ed.), MacAdam/Cage, ISBN 9781596922440 
  • Hur, Angela Mi-Young (2007), The Queens of K-Town (paperback ed.), MacAdam/Cage, ISBN 9781596952457 

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Bak, Suk-hui, “소설'K타운의 여왕들'출간 (Novel 'The Queens of K-Town' published)”, Joongang Ilbo (Atlanta), <http://www.jbc1310.com/new_media/board.php?board=jbc&config=2&page=5&category=14&command=body&no=796>. Retrieved on 14 March 2008 
  2. ^ a b c d Choi, Minsoo (2007-09-12), “Korean American Author Angela Hur to Hold Book Signing in Washington D.C.”, Dynamic Korea (Washington, D.C.: Embassy of the Republic of Korea), <http://www.dynamic-korea.com/etc/people_new.php?uid=200700037074>. Retrieved on 14 March 2008 
  3. ^ Choe, In-seong (2007-09-10), “'한인타운의 여왕들' 집필 2세 소설가 안젤라 허씨; '이중고' 한인여성의 고뇌 (Second-generation novelist Angela Hur, who wrote 'The Queens of K-Town'; Korean women's dual suffering”, Joongang Ilbo (Atlanta), <http://www.jbc1310.com/new_media/board.php?board=jbc&page=48&command=body&no=1038>. Retrieved on 23 April 2008 
  4. ^ Niarchos, Zoe (Spring/Summer 2007), Class Notes, Class of 1998, Phillips Academy, <http://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/PAA/cpages/chapterpage.jsp?chapter=38&org=PAA>. Retrieved on 14 March 2008 
  5. ^ Weisstuch, Liza (2002-02-28), “'Reason' makes its own sense”, Harvard University Gazette (President and Fellows of Harvard University), <http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/02.28/05-reason.html>. Retrieved on 14 March 2008 
  6. ^ Kramer, Sarah E. (2001-11-06), “Creative English Theses, Part II”, The Harvard Crimson, <http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=160706>. Retrieved on 14 March 2008 
  7. ^ Reiter, Keramet A. (2000-03-09), “AAA Hosts Panel on Interracial Dating”, The Harvard Crimson, <http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=99835>. Retrieved on 14 March 2008 
  8. ^ a b Wyman, Anne Julia (2007-08-19), “'Queens of K-Town' are lonely young girls gone wild”, The San Francisco Chronicle, <http://sfgate.info/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/19/RVUVR48OC.DTL&hw=gangster&sn=093&sc=223>. Retrieved on 14 March 2008 
  9. ^ Cart, Michael (2007-08-01), “The Queens of K-Town. (Young adult review)”, Booklist (American Library Association), <http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-33572726_ITM>. Retrieved on 14 March 2008 
  10. ^ Waldman, Adelle (2007-08-07), “Self-indulgence in Koreatown: Angela Mi Young Hur's first novel”, Village Voice, <http://www1.villagevoice.com/books/0732,waldman,77426,10.html>. Retrieved on 14 March 2008 
  11. ^ Abbott, Charlotte (2007-10-09), “The Queens of K-Town”, The Advocate, <http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-169412901.html>. Retrieved on 14 March 2008