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Kate Walbert
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Kate Walbert

Kate Walbert is the author of Where She Went, a New York Times Notable Book of 1998; The Gardens of Kyoto, winner of the Connecticut Book Award for fiction in 2002; and Our Kind, finalist for the National Book Award in 2004. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and numerous other publications. She lives in New York City and Connecticut with her family.

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A Short History of Women will be released on June 15, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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The Gardens of Kyoto will be released on April 13, 2010 in Hardcover
Nov 16, 2009
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Jun 27, 2009
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Kate Walbert: Advice
Jun 27, 2009
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Kate Walbert: Talent
Jun 27, 2009
A Short History of Women is now available in Hardcover
Jun 16, 2009
A Short History of Women is now available in eBook
Jun 16, 2009
A Short History of Women will be released on June 16, 2009 in Hardcover
Jun 16, 2009
A Short History of Women is now available in Hardcover
Jun 16, 2009
A Short History of Women will be released on June 16, 2009 in eBook
Jun 16, 2009
A Short History of Women is now available in eBook
Jun 16, 2009
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Excerpt:
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May 09, 2009
A Short History of Women will be released on June 16, 2009 in Hardcover
Dec 19, 2008
A Short History of Women will be released on June 16, 2009 in eBook
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Our Kind will be released on November 01, 2007 in eBook
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Our Kind is now available in Trade Paperback
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Our Kind has won an award
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Christian Science Monitor, August 25, 2009
...What will the First Family be reading on Martha?s Vineyard this summer? The president?s reading list has already been announced. White House spokesman Bill Burton listed five titles that will be traveling with Obama. The five books (all of which will...
USA Today, July 15, 2009
...Flip through these synopses of four fine reads from Kate Walbert, Alice Hoffman, Kate Christensen and Courtney Eldridge. A Short History of Women By Kate Walbert; Scribner, 239 pp, $24 The title A Short History of Women has dual meaning...
Dallas Morning News, June 21, 2009
...Befitting its title, A Short History of Women, Kate Walbert's new novel is an ambitious attempt to tackle a big issue, the role of women in society. Walbert sets the tone with the opening sentence: 'Mum starved herself...
New York Times, June 12, 2009
...This week: Kate Walbert, the author of the novel ?A Short History of Women?; Paul Barrett on the Wall Street implosion; Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller...
New York Times, June 12, 2009
...This week: Kate Walbert, author of the novel ?A Short History of Women?; Paul Barrett on the Wall Street implosion; Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news...
AM980 CFPL, June 8, 2009
...Kate Walbert (Scribner) This book is for any woman who has ever struggled to find her own voice; to make sense of being a mother, wife, daughter and lover. But it...
STLtoday.com, May 22, 2009
...the author's childhood in Jakarta surrounded by storytellers and folklore. ? 'A Short History of Women' by Kate Walbert (Scribner, June 16). History meets fiction in a story of several generations of Townsend women, taking in the years from pre-World...
Topeka Capital-Journal, January 12, 2009
...War II Generation Book Discussion, 7 to 8:45 p.m. Wednesday. Discuss 'The Gardens of Kyoto' by Kate Walbert. Books available in advance in the Topeka Room. Register: 580-4510. Baby Bookworms, ages birth to 18 months, 9:30 to 10 a.m., 10:30 to 11 a.m...
Minnesota Matron, October 19, 2009
...heads on over to the bookshelf for some old-fashioned ink. Speaking of which, anyone who has not read Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women is missing THE best book of the year. Perfect. Book...
FT's Books, September 28, 2009
...FT's Books Home Welcome A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert September 28, 2009...6:32 am One Hundred Things you didn’t Know you didn’t Know by...
Latest Activity on NaBloPoMo, September 25, 2009
...read to her) over the summer. Speaking of books, I just finished A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert . Here's my review in Goodreads: Eh, this book, when it got going was enjoyable but there were too many characters shallowly drawn. Just as I got...
ArtsBeat, June 12, 2009
...This week: Kate Walbert, the author of the novel “A Short History of Women”; Paul Barrett on the Wall Street implosion; Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller...
Paper Cuts, June 12, 2009
...This week: Kate Walbert, author of the novel “A Short History of Women”; Paul Barrett on the Wall Street implosion; Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news...
Book Review, June 12, 2009
...This week,a conversation with novelist Kate Walbert about her new book, A Short History of Women; Motoko Rich has notes from the field; Paul Barrett tells us about the Wall Street implosion; and Jennifer Schuessler has...
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