About the Author

Paul Park lives in North Adams, MA.

Reviews

Praise for "The White Tyger":
"Paul Park's rich writing makes the Baroness a complicated tragic figure who can seduce us into almost forgiving her despicable behavior. Her story allows "The White Tyger" to stand on its own as a fine novel about the rise and fall of an ambitious woman." -"The ""Denver"" Post"
"[A] tightly woven tale illumined by history and myth." -"Library Journal"

Praise for "The White Tyger"
"Paul Park's rich writing makes the Baroness a complicated tragic figure who can seduce us into almost forgiving her despicable behavior. Her story allows "The White Tyger" to stand on its own as a fine novel about the rise and fall of an ambitious woman." -"The ""Denver"" Post"
"[A] tightly woven tale illumined by history and myth." -"Library Journal"

Praise for "Princess of Roumania":
"No one writes like Paul Park, and when he turns to magic, the results are magical. "A Princess of Roumania "is weirder and wilder than any fantasy you've read before and even those elements which might have been familiar -- a princess, a werewolf, a jewel, a gypsy, magic and murder -- are transformed into strangeness. Park's characters, incidents, and images will stay with you long after you've finished this book."-Karen Joy Fowler
""A Princess of Roumania" is at once a vastly ambitious and passionately realized work of art, and immediately appealing in all the ways that the heart-tugging matter of high fantasy ought to be. Park's Miranda is as brave and questing as a heroine of fantasy should be, and his Baroness Ceaucescu is a fascinating portrait of unstoppable evil that is never more or less than appallingly -- even appealingly -- human. Every page of this book holds something you couldn't have imagined and yet that strikes you as supremely right and satisfying. A huge achievement."-John Crowley
"Complex, elusive, haunting, written in a transparent prose that slips you from one world to another with...ease"-Ursula Le Guin
"I love it! I think it's wonderful."--Elizabeth Hand
"A superb new fantasy, the first in what I hope will be many books in a series."-Ed Greenwood

Hidden since birth in the contemporary world, Miranda Popescu and best friends Peter and Andromeda find their way to another, parallel world in which Roumania, though occupied by the Germans, is still a world power and in which Miranda is a political figure at the center of a war of strategy and peril. When circumstances deliver her into the hands of the mad Baroness Nicola Ceausescu, the puppet ruler of Roumania, Miranda must find a way to rescue her friends and deliver her nation from insanity and oppression. Continuing the story begun in A Princess of Roumania and The Tourmaline, Park leads his heroine down intricate paths between her two disparate worlds as she comes closer to a resolution of her destiny. This tightly woven tale illumined by history and myth is a good addition to most fantasy and YA collections. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.