Kim Edwards

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Kim Edwards is an American author and educator. Her most recent novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, is a New York Times Bestseller.

She wrote the short story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King, which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, and has won both a Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she currently teaches writing at the University of Kentucky.

She graduated from Colgate University in 1981.

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  • [1] University of Kentucky Spotlight
  • [2] Short Biography by BookBrowse