Christina Baker Kline

Baker Kline at the Kalamazoo Public Library in 2016.

Christina Baker Kline (born 1964) is an American novelist. She is the author of seven novels, including Orphan Train, and has co-authored or edited five non-fiction books. Kline is a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship recipient.

Background

She was born in Cambridge, England, and raised in Cambridge, the American South, and in Maine. Kline is a graduate of Yale (BA in English), Cambridge University (MA in Literature), and the University of Virginia (MFA), where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction Writing.[1]

Teaching career

Kline served as Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University from 2007 to 2011, where she taught graduate and undergraduate creative writing and literature.[2]

Works

Fiction

Orphan Train

Set on present-day Mount Desert Island, Maine and in Depression-era Minnesota, Kline's fifth novel, Orphan Train, highlights the real-life story of the orphan trains that between 1854 and 1929 carried thousands of orphaned, abandoned, and destitute children from the East Coast to the Midwest.[5] Since its publication in 2013, Orphan Train has been a bestseller on all the national lists in the U.S.[6]

Non-fiction

As editor

References

  1. ↑ "Christina's Bio". Christina Baker Kline web page. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "People - Faculty". Fordham University English Department.
  3. ↑ Kline, Christina Baker (7 December 2016). "A Piece of the World". Kirkus Review. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  4. ↑ ORPHAN TRAIN GIRL by Christina Baker Kline , Sarah Thomson | Kirkus Reviews.
  5. ↑ "After Tragedy, Young Girl Shipped West On 'Orphan Train'". NPR. April 11, 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  6. ↑ Kline, Christina Baker (May 10, 2013). "Hard choice: Going straight to softcover". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
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