- Kim Edwards
Kim Edwards (born 1958) is an American
author andeducator . Her first novel, "The Memory Keeper's Daughter " (2006), is aNew York Times Bestseller , and was honored with the Popular Fiction Award at the 2008British Book Awards .She wrote the
short story collection, "The Secrets of a Fire King" (1997), which was an alternate for the 1998PEN/Hemingway Award , and has won both aWhiting Award and theNelson Algren Award. A graduate ofColgate University and theIowa Writers' Workshop , she currently teaches writing at theUniversity 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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