Kim Edwards
Autor/a de The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Sobre l'autor
Kim Edwards received an MFA in Fiction from Colgate University and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Iowa. After completing her graduate work, she and her husband taught on the rural east coast of Malaysia, then in a small city an hour south of Tokyo, and finally in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. mostra'n més While in Asia, she started writing and publishing short fiction. Her story, Sky Juice, won the Nelson Algren Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Anteaus, Story, and The Paris Review and have received a National Magazine Award for Excellence in Fiction and a Pushcart Prize. Her other works include the short story collection The Secrets of a Fire King and a novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter, which won the Kentucky Literary Award for Fiction in 2005. She also received a Whiting Writers' Award in 2002. She is a graduate of the Iowa's Writers' Workshop and currently teaches writing at the University of Kentucky. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Kim Edwards - Photo by Deborah Feingold
Obres de Kim Edwards
Obres associades
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Col·laborador — 188 exemplars
5 Books! 1) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time 2) I Capture the Castle 3) The Glass Castle 4) The Devil… (2001) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Edwards, Kim
- Nom oficial
- Edwards Kimberly
- Data de naixement
- 1958
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Amerika
- Lloc de naixement
- Killeen, Texas, Amerika
- Llocs de residència
- Skaneateles, New York, Amerika
Maleisië
Tokio, Japan
Phnom Penh, Cambodja
Lexington, Kentucky, Amerika - Educació
- Colgate University
University of Iowa - Professions
- Schrijfster
Onderzoeker bij de University of Kentucky (Creatief Schrijven ∙ Engels als 2e taal)
Docent - Premis i honors
- PEN/Hemingway Award (alternate)
Whiting Writers' Award (2002)
Membres
Converses
Romance novel with stained glass maker, Luigi? a Name that Book (desembre 2012)
fiction- doctor delivers his twins one of whom is disabled-tells wife the baby has died a Name that Book (setembre 2010)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Books I've Read (2)
Female Author (1)
To Read (1)
AP Lit (1)
Carole's List (1)
Books with Twins (1)
Unread books (1)
First Novels (1)
To Read (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 9
- També de
- 5
- Membres
- 19,048
- Popularitat
- #1,145
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 556
- ISBN
- 150
- Llengües
- 16
- Preferit
- 11
Interesting, even though I din't like David, Norah or even the son that much