Son Jeongmi (F) was born in Seoul and received her B.A in English from Yonsei University. She joined the Chosun Ilbo in 1990 and has worked as a journalist for 20 years, covering cultural, social, political and industrial issues. She reported on various social issues and incident and she was the first female journalist who could access to the ruling and opposition parties.
When she was a literary journalist, the late novelist Park Kyungri recommended that she write novels and she left the medi in 2012 to become a novelist, her dream job since childhood. Two years later, she published her first historical novel, Wang Kyung (王京), which is set in Gyeongju just before the unification of the Three Kingdoms. Later in 2017, she engaged in a thorough research of Gwanggaeto the Great, the great hero of Goguryeo who left a huge legacy on world history, and then published her historical novel Gwanggaeto the Great.
Son, who has been able to vividly portray historical scenes through elaborate historical research and literary imagination, completed this novel as the last installment of her historical trilogy, following the novels on Silla and Goguryeo.