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Kate Walbert
Novelist and Bestselling Author of "A Short History of Women"
Kate Walbert was born in New York City and raised in Georgia, Texas, Japan and Pennsylvania, among other places. She is the author of "A Short History of Women," chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2009 and a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, "Our Kind," a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2004, "The Gardens of Kyoto," winner of the 2002 Connecticut Book Award in Fiction in 2002, and "Where She Went," a collection of linked stories and New York Times notable book. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fiction fellowship, a Connecticut Commission on the Arts fiction fellowship, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Her short fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize stories.
From 1990 to 2005, she lectured in fiction writing at Yale University. She currently lives in New York City with her family.
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