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.

She continues to write articles on culture, dividing her time between the US and various European capitals. The last confirmed sighting of her was in Paris.

Praise for KEPT

'In Y Euny Hong's impressively deft debut... the writing is immaculate [and] the story's evolution nearly effortless... Hong has crafted a delightfully erudite and justifiably literary novel, in tune with a narrator as witty as one can be without being intimidating. It is as smart and clever as it is deliciously entertaining.'
Chicago Tribune

'You'll be laughing from cover to cover'
Daily News, New York

A 'captivating, sophisticaed high-society comedy'
Bookpage

What's a Yale-educated, "descended from the last Korean royal dynasty" girl who travels in moneyed circles and believes she's not fit for employment do when she's 55-grand in debt and her once-rich family is tapped out? In this satirical debut, Hong answers that question by pairing would-be princess Jude Lee with Madame Tartakov, a shady matron who agrees to pay off Jude's debt if Jude works for her as a courtesan in New York for two years.

Hong captures the lure crassly outspoken Jude feels towards the good life when she dines with client Yvengy, an "irresistible" classical violinist who plies her with store credit cards. But Jude's society prospects are hampered when, while at a booze-drenched party, she meets the fortuitously named Joshua Spinoza, a philosophy Ph.D. candidate whose wit and intelligence heighten his allure. As Jude and Joshua court one another, Madame Tartakov fades deep into the background and the story becomes one of tumultuous young love and the unearthing of long-buried family secrets.