Suki Kimis the author of The New York Times best-seller Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite. She is the only writer ever to have lived undercover in North Korea for immersive investigative journalism. Both a novelist and an investigative journalist; her novel was awarded a PEN Open Book Award, shortlisted for a PEN Hemingway Prize, and her nonfiction has appeared in many publications including The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and New Republic, where she is a contributing editor. She is a winner of the 2019 Berlin Prize.
Portrait by Ed Kashi VII
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Suki Kim worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In
January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in
1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles
Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire.
Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the
fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation
up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…