Patricia Park is the author of the debut novel Re Jane
(Viking/Penguin Random House), a modern-day interpretation
of Jane Eyre set in New York and Seoul. She was a
Fulbright scholar and has written for the New York Times,
Guardian, Salon, Daily Beast and others. A self-proclaimed
“Eyre-head”, Park first read Brontë’s classic as a twelve-year-
old in Queens, NY, and has since wondered what if,
Reader, she hadn’t married him. Park is at work on her
second novel, set in Buenos Aires.
