Kate Evans
author profile
born
November 26, 1962
gender
female
place of birth
California, The United States
website
genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Gay & Lesbian
influences
Virginia Woolf, May Sarton, Louise Fitzhugh, Toni Morrison, Judith Butler, Jeffrey Eugenides, ee cummings, Marilyn Hacker, Walt Whitman
about this author
Evans' debut novel . . . is a compelling coming of age story. Through a first person narrative that is as intimate and engaging as the finest memoir, Evans takes the reader on the humorous and chaotic journey of spirited Norma Rogers as she navigates her first year of college. Evans skillfully reminds us all of what it means to be young, questioning, and prone to get a lot wrong on our way toward an adulthood where we know ourselves--and those around us--- just a little better. — Jayne Pupek, author of Tomato Girl
Can a novel about college freshman be a page turner? In Kate Evans’ capable hands, you bet! Evans’ very readable coming-of-age novel transports us to that era of bad hair and worse décor between the swinging Seventies and safe sex. Readers will empathize with the engaging narrator as she negotiates her first year of college, trying to balance conflicting desires and learning to live with the consequences of her choices. Evans hooks the reader from the first paragraph with this story of love and friendship among compelling characters who grapple with the essential question we all have to face: Who are you? ...more
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| 51 ratings
| 4 distinct works
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For the May Queen (Paperback) by Kate Evans (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.23 — 126 ratings — published 2008 |
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Like All We Love (Paperback) by Kate Evans (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.36 — 30 ratings — published 2006 |
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Negotiating the Self: Identity, Sexuality, and Emotion in Learning to Teach (Paperback) by Kate Evans (Goodreads author!) avg rating 3.83 — 14 ratings — published 2002 |
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Rethinking Preparation for Content Area Teaching: The Reading Apprenticeship Approach (Jossey Bass Education Series) by Jane Braunger, Kate Evans avg rating 3.33 — 9 ratings — published 2004 |
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FOR THE MAY QUEEN (Literature & Fiction)
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updated 09/06/2008 08:51PM
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Soon after Norma's parents drop her off in the dorms, she is drunk and naked with three strangers....
Believing is Seeing (Literature & Fiction)
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updated 09/01/2008 11:58AM
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It's the first story I wrote from a man's perspective--almost all the characters, in fact, are (gay) men. If you read it, I'd love to hear what you think.
Filled With Love (Literature & Fiction)
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updated 07/24/2008 01:03PM
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This story first appeared in the Santa Monica Review (http://www.smc.edu/sm_review). I wrote it shortly after 9-11 when the Bush Administration was gearing up to invade Iraq. This story takes place in a not-too-distant imagined future.
The Color of Change (Biographies & Memoirs)
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updated 07/24/2008 12:53PM
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This memoir piece appeared in Common Ties.
Seasons of Our Interior Year (Biographies & Memoirs)
More of Kate's writing…
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This piece in an excerpt from my in-progress memoir. My father had a rare lung disease called bronchiectasis for 25 years. I would often go to my parents' house to help them out. After he died, my mom--who had been his caregiver most of their marriage--was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. The memoir is written in first person, but this section is in second person.
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A Map of the World (Oprah's Book Club) by Jane Hamilton bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Secret Life of Bees: CD
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Kate made a comment in the group Chicks On Lit—Books made into movies topic:
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The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind-and Almost Found Myself-on the Pacific Crest Trail (P.S.)
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The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind-and Almost Found Myself-on the Pacific Crest Trail (P.S.) by Dan White bookshelves: memoir |
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The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (Paperback) by Lewis Hyde (Goodreads author!) bookshelves: to-read |
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Kate
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Holli's
review of For the May Queen:
"Honestly.....this was a REALLY good book. Thank you so much Kate for sending it to me and letting me have this awesome experience. And it truly was an experience. I felt as if I was going back in time to when I was 18 and 19 and god even 20 and al...more " | |||
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Chelle Cordero's
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"Having commuted to college while living in my parents' Bronx apartment, I never got to experience dorm life although I didn't miss out on many parties. But I did send both of my kids off to dorms some 30 years later. Reading Kate Evan's vivid desc...more " | |||
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The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them (Paperback) by Erin Gruwell, Zlata Filipovic |
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Kate said:
"I met one of the writers of this last night at a party (he wrote a chapter as a high school student). Can't wait to read it. I may watch the film, too, but of course he recommended the book over the film.
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— Dr. Seuss
"The purpose of art is to demonstrate that which in argument would appear incomprehensible."
— Leo Tolstoy
— Leo Tolstoy
"Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation."
— Gustave Flaubert
— Gustave Flaubert
"Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.
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— Joyce Carol Oates (The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982)
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— Joyce Carol Oates (The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982)
""Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed."
— Joyce Carol Oates (The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982)
— Joyce Carol Oates (The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982)
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Hi Kate !
I appreciate the love !!
My book is now available so please check it out and enjoy the read!
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Thank you !
Hi Kate,
Thanks for the add!
Check out: http://www.goodreads.com/group...
Please join if you're interested and let's have some fun reading together.
Karen
Thanks! I checked out your blog...which led me to your other blog. Very diverse and interesting stuff you have there. I'll be back. :) I've bookmarked your page so I can read more when my children aren't tugging at my elbows.
K
Hi Kate,
Thanks for befriending me. Your latest novel sounds interesting. Off to read your sample chapter.
Much success,
Karen Harrington
author, Janeology
Kate, Angela's Ashes is the truth that people hate to see....our generations are the first to have any freedom of choice, integrity, pseudo-control of our pregancies & hench lifestyle choices. Most of us do not appreciate what this really means to us--Angela's Ashes is an eye opener.
Memoirs of a Geisha is a movie that when I first saw it I had to see it immediately again (I rented it on DVD so that is exactly what I did.....) A most poetic & beautiful film..again with many truths & surprisingly some humor for covering such a humor- less topic of being sold as a young woman because of the family's poverty (set in old Japan pre-WWII)
Nice to discuss books into movies with you. Thanks for adding me here.
Thanks for connecting with me. See you in Constant Reader amongst other groups.
Dianne Ascroft
author, 'Hitler and Mars Bars'
Hi Kate,
I look forward to reading some of your work to possibly seeing you at the ATL Queer Lit Fest. (And thanks for posting that b/c I probably wouldn't have known about it otherwise!)
M
Hello, Kate,
Wow, you've got an impressive profile. Congratulations on your new book.
A Connecticut Yankee is one of my favorite books, too, though I hadn't thought of it in ages until I saw it on your list.
Thanks for the invitation to add as a friend.
Liz Adair
Author of
The Spider Latham Mystery Series
Mist of Quarry Harbor
Lucy Shook's Letters from Afghanistan (editor)
Counting the Cost (Out in November 08)
