Memoirist Elizabeth Kim

Elizabeth Kim

Living place: South Korean

Birthday: 22-4-1978 (46 years old)

Population of the world 1978: 4.302 billions

Global rank: #21318

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Memoirist Elizabeth Kim profile

Who is Memoirist Elizabeth Kim?
A Korean-American author and journalist, she is best known for her 2000 memoir, The Sorrowful: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War, Orphan. Her autobiography has been translated into more than ten languages.
At one point, she worked in Sweden as a model.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She lives in San Rafael, California and works as a journalist at Marin Independent Magazine. It was during this time that literary agent Patti Breitman asked her to write a memoir.

Family life info

She was born in Korea to an American father and a Korean mother. Her mother was tragically murdered in 1958 by Kim's uncle and grandfather, at which point Kim was sent to an orphanage.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Memoirist Elizabeth Kim?
She and Diane Sawyer are both respected journalists.

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When was Memoirist Elizabeth Kim born?
Elizabeth Kim birthday 22-4-1978 (at the age of 46).
Where is Memoirist Elizabeth Kim's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Elizabeth Kim was born in South Korean. is a Memoirist, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Horse. Elizabeth Kim's global rank is 21318 and whose rank is 2 in list of famous Memoirist. Population of the world in 1978 is about 4.302 billions persons.
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Events in 1978 and 22-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Elizabeth Kim

  • Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian D. Smith and three black leaders agree on transfer to black majority rule (Feb. 15).
  • US Senate approves Panama Canal neutrality treaty (March 16); votes treaty to turn canal over to Panama by year 2000 (April 18).
  • Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro kidnapped by left wing terrorists, who kill five bodyguards (March 16); he is found slain (May 9).
  • Pope Paul VI , dead at 80, mourned (Aug. 6); new Pope, John Paul I, 65, dies unexpectedly after 34 days in office (Sept. 28); succeeded by Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Poland as John Paul II (Oct. 16).
  • "Framework for Peace" in Middle East signed by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin after 13-day conference at Camp David led by President Jimmy Carter (Sept. 17).
  • Jim Jones's followers commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana (Nov. 18).

Birthday Elizabeth Kim (22-4) in history

  • Day 22-4 year 1500: Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered the land of Brazil and claimed it for Portugal.
  • Day 22-4 year 1509: Lord Henry VIII becomes king of England.
  • Day 22-4 year 1616: The great Spanish poet and playwright Cervantes passed away in Madrid. (Some other sources put the date of death as April 23.)
  • Day 22-4 year 1864: Congress authorized the inscription "In God We Trust" on coins minted as U.S. currency.
  • Day 22-4 year 1889: The land rush in Oklahoma began when it was opened to settlers.
  • Day 22-4 year 1970: The first Earth Day was observed.
  • Day 22-4 year 1994: Richard M. Nixon died of a stroke at the age of 81.
  • Day 22-4 year 2000: Armed immigration agents took Elian Gonzalez from the Miami home of his relatives to reunite him with his father.
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