Kate Christensen
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Kate Christensen (born August 22, 1962) 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
Fiction
- In the Drink, Doubleday, 1999, Template:ISBN
- Jeremy Thrane, Broadway, 2001, Template:ISBN
- The Epicure's Lament, Doubleday, 2004, Template:ISBN
- The Great Man, Doubleday, 2007, Template:ISBN
- Trouble, Doubleday, 2009, Template:ISBN
- The Astral, Doubleday, 2011, Template:ISBN
- The Last Cruise, Doubleday, 2018, Template:ISBN
- 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
- Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites, Doubleday, 2013, Template:ISBN
- How to Cook a Moose: A Culinary Memoir, Islandport Press, 2015, Template:ISBN
References
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Further reading
- Robert Smith, "The Art of the Novel", Reed Magazine, Spring 2008: 14–15.
- Template:"'Blue Plate Special': A Generous Helping of Life". Interview with Dave Davies on NPR, July 10, 2013
External links
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- 1962 births
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women novelists
- Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
- Living people
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners
- Place of birth missing (living people)
- Reed College alumni
- Waldorf school alumni