Kim Edwards

Kim Edwards

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.

External links

* [http://www.uky.edu/AS/English/faculty/ke.html University of Kentucky profile]
* [http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=1270 Short Biography by BookBrowse]
* [http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/podcast/clips/9780143037149.mp3 The Memory Keeper's Podcast]
* [http://www.memorykeepersdaughter.com/ Official site for The Memory Keeper's Daughter]


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