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  <name><![CDATA[Beth Kephart]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Though I've been writing since I was nine years old, I didn't publish beyond my high school literary journal until I was a new mother.  My first published essay was in Iowa Woman; subsequently, I published short stories in dozens of literary magazines—learning, always, what worked or what didn't by reading far more than I wrote.  

My first book, A SLANT OF SUN, a memoir, was a National Book Award finalist.  My second, INTO THE TANGLE OF FRIENDSHIP, was supported by an NEA grant.  These gifts give a writer momentum, and hope.  To date I've published five memoirs, an autobiography of a river called FLOW:  THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PHILADELPHIA'S SCHUYLKILL RIVER, and the first of what will be four young adult novels for HarperTeen.  UNDERCOVER has been named a best book of the year by Kirkus, Amazon, School Library Journal, Not Your Mother's Bookclub, and others.  Most recently I've published a corporate fable called ZENOBIA.  A picture book is in the works, as is a novel for adults.

Most of the time, I run a boutique marketing communications firm called Fusion.  When I'm not doing that, I'm taking photographs, ballroom dancing, cooking, gardening, and, of course, reading.  I frequently review for the Chicago Tribune.  

I reflect on the writing and photographing life with daily blog postings at www.beth-kephart.blogspot.com/  I hope you'll visit me there.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Michael Ondaatje, Wallace Stegner, Natalie Kusz, Colum McCann, Alice McDermott, Stanley Kunitz, C.K. Williams, Gerald Stern]]></influences>    <hometown>Wilmington, DE</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Undercover]]></title>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Nothing but Ghosts]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Beth Kephart]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[House of Dance]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Beth Kephart]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Seeing Past Z: Nurturing the Imagination in a Fast-Forward World]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Beth Kephart]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Still Love in Strange Places: A Memoir]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Beth Kephart]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Into the Tangle of Friendship : A Memoir of the Things That Matter]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Heart is Not a Size]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ghosts in the Garden: Reflections on Endings, Beginnings, and the Unearthing of Self]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Flow: The Life and Times of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Beth Kephart]]></name>
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