Kim Edwards

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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.

[edit] External links

• University of Kentucky profile
• Short Biography by BookBrowse
• The Memory Keeper's Podcast
• Official site for The Memory Keeper's Daughter

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