Therese Park
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Therese Park came to the United States to be a cellist with the Kansas City Philharmonic (now the Kansas City Symphony) in 1966. After 30 years, she retired and began writing full time. Her first novel A Gift of the Emperor (1997) is about a Korean schoolgirl forced into military prostitution by the Japanese government during World War II. This book was selected in the reference volumes Reading Groups Choices for 1998 and Contemporary Authors 2001. It was also published in Turkey in 2001.
Therese Park's second novel When a Rooster Crows at Night: A Child's Experience of the Korean War was published in 2004. This story is based on what Park witnessed during the Korean war (1950-1953) as a child.
Her essays and articles have been published in such publications as The Kansas City Star, The Sun Publication, The Best times, and Our Family (Canada), The Beat Magazine and Korea Bridge (South Korea) and others.
She holds a Bachelor of Music from Seoul National University-School of Music and Master of Cello Performance from Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, France.
