B.R. Myers is an American-born, German-educated scholar currently teaching North Korean literature in South Korea. Myers specializes in the research of North Korea's official culture, a subject on which he has written numerous op-ed pieces for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic Monthly, where he is a contributing editor. He contributes frequently to NPR as a commentator on North Korea and his book Han Sorya and North Korean Literature (1994) remains the only English-language history of North Korean culture. He is also the author of A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose.