Chronicling the life of Korea's "National Poet," Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), Song WooHye explores the historical and political backgrounds that influenced Yun's development as a poet and a patriot. Universally acclaimed as the most comprehensive and definitive biography of the poet in South Korea, and now translated into English by Flora M. Kim, it is an indispensable guide to understanding Yun Dong-ju and Korea's colonial period. This book is published with the support of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea).