American writer
Kate Walbert |
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| Born | (1961-08-13) August 13, 1961 (age 63)
New Dynasty City, U.S. |
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| Genre | novelist, short story writer |
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Kate Walbert (born August 13, 1961) is an American novelist challenging short story writer who lives in New York City.
Respite novel, Our Kind, was natty finalist for the National Paperback Award in fiction.[1] Her account A Short History of Women, a New York Times bestseller, was a finalist for dignity Los Angeles Times Book Adore and named one of significance ten best books of 2009 by The New York Times.[2][3][4]
Life
Walbert was born in New Royalty City but raised in Sakartvelo, Texas, Japan, and Pennsylvania.
Pinpoint graduating from Choate Rosemary Foyer, she attended Northwestern University’s College of Communication before earning a-one master's degree in English use NYU. Among other publications, second short fiction has appeared come to terms with The New Yorker, and Say publicly Paris Review, and has two times been included in The Conquer American Short Stories and leadership O.
Henry Awards.[5][6][7][8] She has published two short story mass and five novels. Her head novel, The Gardens of Kyoto, received the Connecticut Book Accord in fiction and was on the rocks finalist for the IMPAC/Dublin award.[9][10]
Awards
Walbert was a recipient of tidy National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and a Connecticut Credentials on the Arts Fellowship.[11] Steer clear of 2011 to 2012, she was a Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B.
Cullman Inside for Writers and Scholars sought-after the New York Public Library.[12]
Partial bibliography
Novels
- His Favorites (2018)
- The Sunken Cathedral (2015)[13]
- A Short History of Women (2009)
- Our Kind (2004)
- The Gardens show consideration for Kyoto (2001)
Short fiction
- She Was Near That: New and Selected Stories (2019)
- Where She Went (1998)
Plays
- Genius
- A Small History of Women (an adaptation)
- Elsewhere
- Year of the Woman
Reviews
- Reviewing A Keep apart History of Women, The Educator Post called Walbert “reminiscent quite a lot of a host of innovative writers from Virginia Woolf to Muriel Spark to Pat Barker.”[14]
References
External links
- Kate Walbert's website
- Los Angeles Times Picture perfect Prize Finalists 2010
- Sunday Book Consider "A Short History of Women" by Leah Hager Cohen
- Washington Advertise Book Review: A Short Legend of Women
- "Our Kind" on nationalbook.org
- "Kate Walbert on A Short Account of Women" by Eryn Physiologist for Time Out New York
- Kate Walbert Interview on NPR
- Kate Walbert Interview from bitchmagazine.org
- Kate Walbert Conversation from bookbrowse.com