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973.744.7177
Christina Baker Kline is a novelist, nonfiction writer and editor. In
addition to THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE, her novels include SWEET
WATER and DESIRE LINES. Her next novel, FOUR WAY STOP, is to
be published by William Morrow in February 2009.
Kline commissioned and edited two widely praised collections of
original essays on the first year of parenthood and raising young
children, CHILD OF MINE and ROOM TO GROW. She also
co-authored a book on feminist mothers and daughters, THE
CONVERSATION BEGINS, with her mother, Christina L. Baker. Her
essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times
Book Review, The Yale Review, Southern Living, Ms., Parents, and
Family Life, among other places.
Kline was born in Cambridge, England and raised there as well as in the American South and Maine. She is a graduate of Yale, Cambridge, and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction Writing. Currently the Writer in Residence at Fordham University, she has taught fiction and non-fiction writing, poetry, English literature, literary theory, and women's studies at Yale, NYU, and Drew University, among other places. She is a recent recipient of a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship and a Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She serves on the advisory board of LandEscapes, a Maine arts group, and donates her time and editing skills to a number of organizations in New Jersey and Maine. As a freelance editor and writing consultant, Kline has written, edited, copyedited, and consulted on dozens of novels, nonfiction books, book proposals, magazine articles, and grant proposals. She has edited works by many writers, including Susan Cheever, Mona Simpson, Jon Katz, Naomi Wolf, Allegra Goodman, and Judy Goldman. Her in-house experience includes editorial positions at the literary magazines Granta and Callaloo. Kline has worked as a caterer, cook, and personal chef on the Maine coast, Martha's Vineyard, and in Charlottesville, Virginia. She lives in an old house in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, David Kline; three boys, Hayden, Will, and Eli; and Lucy, an English Springer Spaniel. She spends summers with extended family in an even older house on Mount Desert Island in Maine. |
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