An Na (1972-) Biography - Awards, Honors, Sidelights - Personal, Addresses, Career, Writings, Adaptations, Work in Progress
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Born 1972, in South Korea; Ethnicity: "Korean." Education: Amherst College, B.A., 1994; Vermont College, M.F.A., 2000.
Agent—c/o Author Mail, Front Street Books, 20 Battery Park Ave., Asheville, NC 28801.
Writer. Taught English and history at the middle school level.
A Step from Heaven (young adult novel), Front Street Books (Asheville, NC), 2001.
A Step from Heaven was adapted as an audiobook by Listening Library, 2002.
"A Romeo and Juliet-type love story that centers on a Latino and an Asian character."
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"Uhmma's hands are as old as sand. They have always been old, even when we were young. In the mornings, they would scratch across our sleeping faces as she smoothed our foreheads, our cheeks, and told us quietly, Wake up. Time for school." Thus begins the debut novel by An Na, A Step from Heaven, a "stirring immigration story of Young Ju's coming of age from the …
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