Richard E. Kim (born in 1932 in Hamhung, Korea) is a Korean-Americanwriter and professor of literature. He is author of The Martyred (1964), The Innocent (1968), and Lost Names (1970), and many other works. He is a Guggenheim Fellow (1965) and was a recipient of a Fulbright grant. His most popular work is Lost Names. Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Korea (Korean: í•œêµ in South Korea or ì¡°ì„ in North Korea, see below) is a geographic area, civilization, and former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... The Fulbright Program is program of educational grants (Fulbright Fellowships) sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State. ...
RichardE. Kim, Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998.
RichardKim shuns questions of whether the book is fictional or autobiographical, pointing out that while he wrote it as fiction, it has generally been regarded as an account of his own early years.
In the 1999 interview referred to earlier, Kim declared that one of his missions in life was "to teach Koreans to accept responsibility for their lives, to stop blaming others, the Japanese, the Chinese.
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