Kate Christensen
Kate Christensen | |
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| Occupation | Novelist |
| Website | katechristensen |
Kate Christensen is an American novelist. She won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her fourth novel, The Great Man, about a painter and the three women in his life.[1] Her tenth and eleventh novels are forthcoming: The Sacred & the Divine (with Melissa Henderson) from Hyperion in 2025; Good Company from HarperCollins in 2026. She is also the author of two food-related memoirs, Blue Plate Special (Doubleday, 2013) and How to Cook a Moose (Islandport Press, 2015), the latter of which won the 2016 Maine Literary Award for memoir.[2]
She is a graduate of Reed College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her essays, articles, reviews, and stories have appeared in many anthologies and periodicals.
Works
[edit | edit source]Fiction
[edit | edit source]- In the Drink, Doubleday, 1999, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Jeremy Thrane, Broadway, 2001, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Epicure's Lament, Doubleday, 2004, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Great Man, Doubleday, 2007, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Trouble, Doubleday, 2009, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Astral, Doubleday, 2011, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Last Cruise, Doubleday, 2018, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Welcome Home, Stranger, 2023
- The Arizona Triangle (as Sydney Graves), 2024
- The Sacred & the Divine (with Melissa Henderson), 2025
- Good Company, 2026
- Saguaro City (as Sydney Graves), TBA
Non-fiction
[edit | edit source]- Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites, Doubleday, 2013, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- How to Cook a Moose: A Culinary Memoir, Islandport Press, 2015, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
References
[edit | edit source]Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Robert Smith, "The Art of the Novel", Reed Magazine, Spring 2008: 14–15.
- "'Blue Plate Special': A Generous Helping of Life". Interview with Dave Davies on NPR, July 10, 2013
External links
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