Kim Edwards
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Kim Edwards (born 1958) is an American author and educator. Her first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2006), is a New York Times Bestseller, and was honored with the Popular Fiction Award at the 2008 British Book Awards.
She wrote the short story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King (1997), 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 Colgate University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she currently teaches writing at the University of Kentucky. She lives in Lexington with her husband Tom and her two daughters, Abby and Naomi.
[edit] External links
- University of Kentucky profile
- Short Biography by BookBrowse
- The Memory Keeper's Podcast
- Official site for The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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