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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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The Gardens of Kyoto will be released on September 28, 2010 in Hardcover
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A Short History of Women will be released on June 15, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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Review Seeker, February 9, 2012
...distinguished roster of writers and teachers. The faculty includes fiction writers Julia Glass, Tom Perrotta, Richard Selzer, and Kate Walbert, and creative nonfiction writer M. G. Lord. Conference participants can specialize in Fiction, Nonfiction, or...
St. Petersburg Times, January 9, 2012
...reading it for research for my next book. I've also got A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert. I kept hearing her name so I want to read her. And then there's Queen of America by Luis Alberto Urrea. You said you're reading the book...
New York Times, November 3, 2011
...slightly different way than my New York friends. I open a novel, “A Short History of Women,” by Kate Walbert, a book I will grow to love over the coming week, but at first my data-addled brain is puzzled by the density and length of it (256 pages? how...
New York Times, November 3, 2011
...slightly different way than my New York friends. I open a novel, “A Short History of Women,” by Kate Walbert, a book I will grow to love over the coming week, but at first my data-addled brain is puzzled by the density and length of it (256 pages? how...
Killingworth Durham Middlefield Patch, July 17, 2011
...and women who produce the paper—and one woman who reads it religiously, if belatedly. Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert "I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?" So begins this ethereal debut novel, a romantic, bittersweet...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, June 10, 2011
...Why hadn’t Mei-Mei told EV about it before? So smart, so visceral, so sexy... Absolutely brilliant. — Kate Walbert, author of A Short History of Women...
Booktrade - Book2Book, June 9, 2011
...Graham has worked with such fiction writers as Don DeLillo, Stephen King, Annie Proulx, Amy Hempel, Ann Beattie, Kate Walbert, Kathy Reichs, Carol Edgarian, Rafael Yglesias, and Colm Tóibín, and has introduced new writers such as Monica Ali, Dana...
positively present, August 11, 2011
...Lorrie Morre The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society , Mary Ann Schaffer A Short History of Women , Kate Walbert Stargirl  and  Love, Stargirl , Jerry Spinelli A Short Guide to a Happy Life , Anna Quindlen      Internet Inspiration ...
Erin Reads, July 6, 2011
...the past few weeks. At the first, I picked up two books: A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert Wait for Me! by Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire Sounds all tame and restrained, no? Don’t worry. My true book-obsessed nature came barreling...
PERPETUAL FOLLY, May 24, 2011
...May, 30, 2011: “ M&M World ” by Kate Walbert The good news is that this story is available for free. No pay wall. The bad news is that you might not like it much. I can’t say...