![]() ![]() ![]() It was a 2000 article in Time magazine about Genghis Khan that jumpstarted Ellen’s writing career and ignited her obsessive fascination with ancient Asian history, especially Korean history. For years, she practiced corporate and entertainment law, but she no longer does and doesn’t miss it all! She attended college at New York University and then studied law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Her high school English teacher encouraged her to write creatively, but Ellen didn’t pursue a career in writing right away. Ellen was mesmerized! As a young teen, she loved reading Agatha Christie mysteries and Stephen King novels, especially Cujo and Salem’s Lot. ![]() Growing up in Brooklyn, Ellen loved horror books, perhaps in part because her parents took her to a terrifying werewolf movie when she was only four years old. She is also the co-founder of We Need Diverse Books, the groundbreaking, grassroots non-profit organization. She is the editor of the middle grade anthology Flying Lessons and Other Stories and the YA anthology Thousand Beginnings and Endings. Ellen Oh is the award winning author of the middle grade novels Finding Junie Kim, Dragon Egg Princess, Spirit Hunters and its sequel, The Island of Monsters, as well as the highly-acclaimed, young-adult Prophecy trilogy (Prophecy, Warrior, and King). ![]()
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