Kate Christensen

Nationality

American

Description

Kate Christensen (born August 22, 1962) is an American novelist. She won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for her fourth novel, The Great Man, about a painter and the three women in his life. Her previous novels are In the Drink (1999), Jeremy Thrane (2001), and The Epicure's Lament: A Novel (2004). Her fifth novel, Trouble: A Novel (2009), was released in paperback by Vintage/Anchor in June 2010. Her sixth novel, The Astral: A Novel, was published in hardcover by Doubleday in June 2011. She is also the author of two food-related memoirs, Blue Plate Special (Doubleday, 2013) and How To Cook A Moose: A Culinary Memoir (Islandport Press, 2015), which won the 2016 Maine Literary Award for memoir.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, including The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Elle, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Food & Wine, Cherry Bombe, and the Jewish Daily Forward.

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Gender

Female

The best books of all time by Kate Christensen

  1. 2098 . The Great Man by Kate Christensen

    The Great Man: A Novel is a 2007 novel by American author Kate Christensen. It won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, beating nearly 350 other submissions and earning Christensen the $15,000 ...

  2. 2671 . The Epicure's Lament by Kate Christensen

    Hugo Whittier–failed poet and former kept man–is a wily misanthrope with a taste for whiskey, women, and his own cooking. Afflicted with a rare disease that will be fatal unless he quits smoking, H...

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