Most Writers Adore Their Editors, And I'm

My First Publication Was A Haiku In A Children's Magazine When I Was 9 Years Old. I Received One Dollar For It! I Gave The Check To My Dad For Christmas, And He Framed It And Hung It Over His Desk.

I Used To Sit Home With My Computer And Write. After The Newbery, I Probably Spend More Than Half My Time On The Road.

Most Writers Adore Their Editors, And I'm No Exception.

With A Book Called 'keeping Score,' I Really Did Want To Write A Book About The Korean War, Because I Felt That It Is The Least Understood War In The American Cultural Imagination. So I Set Out With The Idea That Americans Didn't Know Much About The Korean War And That I Was Going To Try To Fix A Tiny Bit Of That.

In My Family And Among Korean-americans, There Just Is No Occasion That People Would Get Together Without Bibimbap. It's Something That People Eat When They're Wanting To Celebrate Or Have A Good Time With Friends.