1999년 《Seasaw Girl 널뛰는 아가씨》로 데뷔하였다. 린다 수박의 많은 책은 한국 옛날이야기를 밑바탕으로 하고 있다. 고려 청자 이야기를 담은 세 번째 장편 동화, 《A Single Shard 사금파리 한 조각》(2001)으로 2002년 미국 최고의 아동문학상인 뉴베리상을 수상했다.
그 외에 《The Kate Fighters 연싸움》(2000), 《When My Name Was Keoko 내 이름이 교코였을 때》(2002) 들의 책도 출간했다.
또한 릭 라이어던 등 저명한 아동문학작가들이 참여했던 [The 39 Clues] 10부작 시리즈 중 제9권인 《Storm Warning》(2010)과 'Cahill vs. Vespers' 시리즈 중 제5권 《Trust No One》(2012)을 집필했다.
크리스 알스버그의 그림을 소재한 단편소설 모음집 《The Chronicles of Harris Burdick》(2011)에도 참여하였다. 스티븐 킹, 루이스 새커 등 13명의 유명작가의 글이 함께 실려있다.
지금 린다 수 박은 뉴욕, 로체스터에서 아일랜드인 남편(AP 통신 기자), 사랑스런 두 아이와 함께 작품 활동을 하고 있다. 집에 있는 사무실에는 날 비단실 한 타래가 선반에 걸려 있다. 그것은 바로 《Mulberry Project》(2005)를 쓰기 위해서 직접 기른 누에에서 뽑은 실이다.
www.lindasuepark.com 린다 수 박의 공식 홈피
Linda Sue Park was born in Urbana, Illinois on March 25, 1960, and grew up outside Chicago. The daughter of Korean immigrants, she has been writing poems and stories since she was four years old, and her favorite thing to do as a child was read.
This is the first thing she ever published—a haiku in a children's magazine when she was nine years old:
In the green forest
A sparkling, bright blue pond hides.
And animals drink.
—Trailblazer magazine, Winter 1969
For this poem she was paid one whole dollar. She gave the check to her dad for Christmas. About a year later the company wrote to her asking her to cash the check! Linda Sue wrote back explaining that it was now framed and hung above her dad's desk and was it okay if he kept it? The magazine said it was fine, and her dad still has that check.
During elementary school and high school, Linda Sue had several more poems published in magazines for children and young people. She went to Stanford University, competed for the gymnastics team, and graduated with a degree in English. Then she took a job as a public-relations writer for a major oil company. This was not exactly the kind of writing she wanted to do, but it did teach her to present her work professionally and that an interested writer can make any subject fascinating (well, almost any subject ...).
In 1983, after two years with the oil company, Linda Sue left her job and moved to Dublin when a handsome Irishman swept her off her feet. She studied literature, moved to London, worked for an advertising agency, married that Irishman, had a baby, taught English as a second language to college students, worked as a food journalist, and had another baby. It was a busy time, and she never even thought about writing children's books.
In 1990, she and her family moved back to the U.S. because of her husband's job. Linda Sue continued teaching English to foreign students. It took her quite a while, but she finally realized that what she really wanted to do was to write books for children. In 1997, she started writing her first book, Seesaw Girl. It was accepted that same year and published in 1999.
Since then, Linda Sue has published many other books for young people, including A Single Shard, which was awarded the 2002 Newbery Medal.
She now lives in western New York with the same Irishman; their son lives nearby, and their daughter lives in Brooklyn. Besides reading and writing, Linda Sue likes to cook, travel, watch movies, and do the New York Times crossword puzzle. She also loves dogs, watching sports on television and playing board and video games. When she grows up, she would like to be an elephant scientist.
[A Long Walk to Water]
[ Linda & Salva ]
This is based on the true story of Salva from South Sudan.
Escaping from the war in his country, Salve walked all the way from Sudan to Ethiopia and then Kenya in search for safe refugee camps. He'd been through so many ordeals while he was walking.
http://www.waterforsouthsudan.org
[Project Mulberry]
2006 CCBC(Cooperative Children’s Book Center) Choices
2005 New York Public Library, 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
2005 Chicago Tribune Young Adult Fiction Prize
2005 Chicago Public Library ‘Best of the Best Books’
2005 Notable Books for a Global Society
2006 Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year
2006 Kansas State Reading Circle Recommendation
2006 Texas Bluebonnet Master List
2006 Keystone to Reading Master List (PA)
2007 Kentucky Bluegrass Award Nominee
2008 Mark Twain Award Master List (MO)
