Colgate's Living Writer: Kim Edwards 12/4/09

Kim Edwards, a graduate of Colgate University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, has won numerous awards for her fiction, including a Whiting Writers' Award, the Nelson Algren Award, and the National Magazine Award for Excellence in Fiction. She is the author of a collection of short stories, The Secrets of a Fire King, which was short-listed for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, spent two years on The New York Times Bestseller List, with 20 weeks at No. 1; it won the British Book Award, and has been now been published in 40 countries. Kim Edwards is an associate professor at The University of Kentucky. She is finishing a new novel set in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York, where she grew up.

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