Blaine Harden is an American journalist and author. His 2012 book Escape from Camp 14 is an official biography of North Korean defectorShin Dong-hyuk.
Journalism
Harden worked for 28 years for The Washington Post as a correspondent in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, as well as in New York and Seattle. Harden worked for 4 years as a local and national correspondent for The New York Times and a writer for the Times Magazine. He has also worked as a reporter for Frontline, The Economist, Foreign Policy, National Geographic and The Guardian.
Books
Harden's debut book was in 1990, called Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent. His second book was in 1996, titled A River Lost about the damming of the wildColumbia river and its ecological consequences. Harden and his book are featured in the PBS American Experience program titled Grand Coulee Dam, about the Grand Coulee Dam. His third book came out in 2012 titled Escape from Camp 14. It is an official biography of North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk. In January 2015, Harden announced that Shin had admitted to lying about several aspects of his story. Harden's fourth book The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot was released in March 2015. It is a dual biography of Kim Il-sung, the founder of North Korea and No Kum-sok, a defector who stole a MiG-15 and landed it in South Korea. Harden's fifth book King of Spies was released in October 2017. It is a biography of Air Force Major Donald Nichols, an intelligence officer who operated for 11 years in Korea before, during and after the Korean War.
2012 Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
2015 The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and The Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom
2017 King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America's Spymaster in Korea
