Angela Hur

Infobox Korean name
hangul=허미영citation|last=Bak|first=Suk-hui|url=http://www.jbc1310.com/new_media/board.php?board=jbc&config=2&page=5&category=14&command=body&no=796|periodical=Joongang Ilbo|publication-place=Atlanta|title=소설'K타운의 여왕들'출간 (Novel 'The Queens of K-Town' published)|accessdate=2008-03-14]
mr=Hŏ Miyŏng
rr=Heo Mi-yeong

Angela Mi-Young Hur (born Los Angeles, California) is a Korean American author.citation|last=Choi|first=Minsoo|title=Korean American Author Angela Hur to Hold Book Signing in Washington D.C.|periodical=Dynamic Korea|publisher=Embassy of the Republic of Korea|publication-place=Washington, D.C.|date=2007-09-12|accessdate=2008-03-14|url=http://www.dynamic-korea.com/etc/people_new.php?uid=200700037074] citation|last=Choe|first=In-seong|url=http://www.jbc1310.com/new_media/board.php?board=jbc&page=48&command=body&no=1038|periodical=Joongang Ilbo|publication-place=Atlanta|date=2007-09-10|title='한인타운의 여왕들' 집필 2세 소설가 안젤라 허씨; '이중고' 한인여성의 고뇌 (Second-generation novelist Angela Hur, who wrote 'The Queens of K-Town'; Korean women's dual suffering|accessdate=2008-04-23]

Raised in Gardena, California, Hur graduated from Phillips Academy, an Andover, Massachusetts boarding school, in 1998. [citation|title=Class Notes, Class of 1998|date=Spring/Summer 2007|accessdate=2008-03-14|last=Niarchos|first=Zoe|publisher=Phillips Academy|url=http://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/PAA/cpages/chapterpage.jsp?chapter=38&org=PAA] She remained in Massachusetts to continue her education after high school, enrolling at Harvard University, where she majored in English. While an undergraduate, she became involved in student theater, but realized that she was more drawn to writing than acting during a project with renowned playwrights Ping Chong and Michael Rohd, then in residence at Harvard as Peter Ivers Visiting Artists. [citation|url=http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/02.28/05-reason.html|periodical=Harvard University Gazette|publisher=President and Fellows of Harvard University|date=2002-02-28|accessdate=2008-03-14|last=Weisstuch|first=Liza|title='Reason' makes its own sense] In lieu of a senior thesis, she wrote a novel about a woman having her mother's diaries from Korean to English, and the love triangle among her, her mother, and the translator. Her major literary influences included Henry James, Aimee Bender, Haruki Murakami, Marguerite Duras, and Alfred Hitchcock. She received her bachelor's degree in 2002.citation|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=160706|last=Kramer|first=Sarah E.|title=Creative English Theses, Part II|date=2001-11-06|accessdate=2008-03-14|periodical=The Harvard Crimson] [citation|periodical=The Harvard Crimson|title=AAA Hosts Panel on Interracial Dating|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=99835|last=Reiter|first=Keramet A.|date=2000-03-09|accessdate=2008-03-14] Later, she entered the Master of Fine Arts program at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, where she was a recipient of the university's Sparks Fellowship; she graduated in 2005.citation|url=http://sfgate.info/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/19/RVUVR48OC.DTL&hw=gangster&sn=093&sc=223|title='Queens of K-Town' are lonely young girls gone wild|last=Wyman|first=Anne Julia|date=2007-08-19|accessdate=2008-03-14|periodical=The San Francisco Chronicle]

After receiving her MFA, Hur spent one year writing what would be her first published novel, "The Queens of K-Town", which was released in August 2007. Anne Wyman gave "The Queens of K-Town" a largely favourable review in the "San Francisco Chronicle", while Adelle Waldman, writing for the "Village Voice", praised Hur's writing as "evocative without being obtrusive" but criticised the novel as a whole for its self-indulgence and lack of coherence.citation|periodical=Booklist|publisher=American Library Association|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-33572726_ITM|date=2007-08-01|accessdate=2008-03-14|last=Cart|first=Michael|title=The Queens of K-Town. (Young adult review)] citation|title=Self-indulgence in Koreatown: Angela Mi Young Hur's first novel|last=Waldman|first=Adelle|periodical=Village Voice|date=2007-08-07|accessdate=2008-03-14|url=http://www1.villagevoice.com/books/0732,waldman,77426,10.html] Others compared "The Queens of K-Town" to Jeffrey Eugenides' "The Virgin Suicides". [citation|title=The Queens of K-Town|periodical=The Advocate|last=Abbott|first=Charlotte|date=2007-10-09|accessdate=2008-03-14|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-169412901.html] Hur hopes to have "The Queens of K-Town" published in Korean as well.

Hur lived in Long Beach, California when "The Queens of K-Town" was published. She later moved to San Francisco.fact|date=March 2008

Works

*citation|last=Hur|first=Angela Mi-Young|title=The Queens of K-Town|edition=hardcover|isbn=9781596922440|publisher=MacAdam/Cage|date=2007
*citation|last=Hur|first=Angela Mi-Young|title=The Queens of K-Town|edition=paperback|isbn=9781596952457|publisher=MacAdam/Cage|date=2007

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