CHAPTER 21

Susan Kim

Susan Kim is a prolific writer of books, plays, dramatic and documentary films, and children's television. For the stage, she wrote the adaptation of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, as well as numerous one-act plays that have been performed at the Ensemble Studio Theatre and elsewhere, and also published. A five-time Emmy Award nominee, her television writing includes more than two dozen children's series. Her documentary credits include Paving the Way (1997), a 60-minute film for PBS for which she won the Writers Guild Award; The Meaning of Food (2005), a three-hour series for PBS; and the feature-length Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2007), which explores the 60-year relationship between the U.S. movie industry ...

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