Y. Euny Hong
| Titles: | KEPT |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Agent: | Lizzy Kremer |
Journalist Y. Euny Hong was a Senior Columnist at the Financial Times Weekend, US Edition, in which capacity she originated and wrote a weekly television column and other articles on culture. Three editors of major publications in the US and the UK called her column “the best television column in the US.” She has hundreds of published articles to her credit, which have appeared in The New York Times, The Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal Europe, the International Herald Tribune, the New Republic, the Boston Globe, and the Forward, among others.
She spent her childhood between the US and Seoul, Korea, and has also lived in Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Philosophy. While at Yale, she co-founded a campus humour magazine that remains in continuous operation. She is now resident in France.
Ms. Hong holds a Higher Certificate from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust in London. Other interests include travel, scuba diving, and classical music. She speaks French, German, and Korean, in varying degrees of proficiency.
Ms. Hong's her first novel, Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners, an account of the social rise and fall of a Korean blue blooded princess in New York, was published by Simon & Shuster US, in August 2006.
