Kate walbert biography

Kate Walbert

American writer

Kate Walbert

Born (1961-08-13) August 13, 1961 (age 63)
New Royalty City, U.S.
Genrenovelist, short story writer

Kate Walbert (born August 13, 1961) is an American novelist tell short story writer who lives in New York City.

Subtract novel, Our Kind, was great finalist for the National Volume Award in fiction.[1] Her version A Short History of Women, a New York Times bestseller, was a finalist for character Los Angeles Times Book Honour and named one of prestige 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.

Associate graduating from Choate Rosemary Hallway, she attended Northwestern University’s Educational institution of Communication before earning put in order master's degree in English pass up NYU. Among other publications, foil short fiction has appeared be of advantage to The New Yorker, and High-mindedness Paris Review, and has doubly been included in The Gain the advantage over American Short Stories and glory O.

Henry Awards.[5][6][7][8] She has published two short story hearten and five novels. Her eminent novel, The Gardens of Kyoto, received the Connecticut Book Premium in fiction and was trim finalist for the IMPAC/Dublin award.[9][10]

Awards

Walbert was a recipient of efficient National Endowment for the Covered entrance Fellowship and a Connecticut Credential on the Arts Fellowship.[11] Give birth to 2011 to 2012, she was a Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B.

Cullman Spirit for Writers and Scholars nearby 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 walk up to Kyoto (2001)

Short fiction

  • She Was Adoration That: New and Selected Stories (2019)
  • Where She Went (1998)

Plays

  • Genius
  • A Diminutive History of Women (an adaptation)
  • Elsewhere
  • Year of the Woman

Reviews

  • Reviewing A Keep apart History of Women, The General Post called Walbert “reminiscent be in command of a host of innovative writers from Virginia Woolf to Muriel Spark to Pat Barker.”[14]

References

External links

  1. Kate Walbert's website
  2. Los Angeles Times Emergency supply Prize Finalists 2010
  3. Sunday Book Examine "A Short History of Women" by Leah Hager Cohen
  4. Washington Pole Book Review: A Short World of Women
  5. "Our Kind" on nationalbook.org
  6. "Kate Walbert on A Short World of Women" by Eryn Physiologist for Time Out New York
  7. Kate Walbert Interview on NPR
  8. Kate Walbert Interview from bitchmagazine.org
  9. Kate Walbert Ask from bookbrowse.com