Meet the Author

Ginger Park

While Ginger never followed in her father’s Harvard footsteps, writing books and owning a boutique chocolate shop in the heart of downtown Washington, DC have been her true education. 

As writer and entrepreneur, she has built a sweet life, surviving and thriving in an uncertain world. The books inspired by Ginger’s parents’ experiences growing up in Japanese occupied Korea, enduring the Russian invasion of their homeland and the Korean War, have deeper meaning, bring a tragic yet vibrant world back to life. Her parents live on through her books, which have garnered many accolades including the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award, Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, The Joan G. Sugarman Children’s Book Award, Outstanding Merit, Best Children’s Books of the Year, Bank Street College, Parents’ Choice Award, A Junior Library Guild Selection, IRA-CBC Teachers’ Choice Award, and NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book For Young People Children’s Book Award. Her books have been published by National Geographic, Boyds Mills & Kane, Hyperion, Lee & Low, St. Martin’s Press, and Thomas Dunne. She has added Regal House Publishing to the list with the publication of her latest work The Hundred Choices Department Store.