Yong Ik Kim (5/15/1920-4/11/1995) was an early Korean-American writer originally from Tongyeong, Korea. His works are primarily in English but also translated into other languages such as German and Korean. He earned a Ph.D. in English literature from Aoyama Gakuin University, an M.A. in English literature from the University of Kentucky at Lexington, and also attended Florida Southern College. Kim taught at Ewha Woman’s University, Korea University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Duquesne University. He is author of nonfiction, novels, essays, and collections of short stories and has been published in Atlantic Monthly, The Hudson Review, Harper’s Bazaar, and The New Yorker.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Yong Ik Kim
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Pittsburgh, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1995
Studios
Phi Beta
Yong Ik Kim worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…