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Jae-Ha Kim
New York Times bestselling author, Jae-Ha Kim, writes "Go Away With..." -- a celebrity travel column that allows readers to vicariously travel along with stars such as Courtney Thorne-Smith, Joss Stone and Apolo Anton Ohno. Her bimonthly column offers insight into how celebrities like to vacation, as well as where they like to vacation. Kim started writing about celebrities while studying political science at the University of Chicago. She wrote for Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly and Playboy, as well as newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, the New York Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and USA Today.
After a stint as the rock music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, Kim traveled to New Zealand to interview the cast of "The Lord of the Rings." It was sitting amongst orcs and hobbits that she was inspired to create "Go Away With..." A voting member of the Chicago Film Critics Association, Kim wrote the first book about the hit sitcom "Friends" and is a co-editor of several travel books. She has appeared as a pop culture expert on NBC's "Today," "Entertainment Tonight," A&E's "Biography" and E! Entertainment.