Kim Edwards
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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 altro 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 meno
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Opere di Kim Edwards
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The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Collaboratore — 188 copie
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) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Edwards, Kim
- Nome legale
- Edwards Kimberly
- Data di nascita
- 1958
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Amerika
- Luogo di nascita
- Killeen, Texas, Amerika
- Luogo di residenza
- Skaneateles, New York, Amerika
Maleisië
Tokio, Japan
Phnom Penh, Cambodja
Lexington, Kentucky, Amerika - Istruzione
- Colgate University
University of Iowa - Attività lavorative
- Schrijfster
Onderzoeker bij de University of Kentucky (Creatief Schrijven ∙ Engels als 2e taal)
Docent - Premi e riconoscimenti
- PEN/Hemingway Award (alternate)
Whiting Writers' Award (2002)
Utenti
Discussioni
Romance novel with stained glass maker, Luigi? in Name that Book (Dicembre 2012)
fiction- doctor delivers his twins one of whom is disabled-tells wife the baby has died in Name that Book (Settembre 2010)
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- Opere
- 9
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 19,058
- Popolarità
- #1,144
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 556
- ISBN
- 150
- Lingue
- 16
- Preferito da
- 11