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Kim Edwards

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January 01, 1958

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Kim Edwards grew up in Skaneateles, New York, in the heart of the Finger Lakes region. The oldest of four children, she graduated from Colgate University and the University of Iowa, where she received an MFA in Fiction and an MA in Linguistics. After completing her graduate work, she went with her husband to Asia, where they spent the next five years teaching, first on the rural east coast of Malaysia, then in a small city an hour south of Tokyo, and finally in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

During her time in Asia, Kim began to publish short fiction, and in 1990 her story “Sky Juice” won the Nelson Algren Award. Her stories and essays have since appeared in a wide range of periodicals, including Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Anteaus, Story, and The Paris...more


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Average rating: 3.55 · 345,404 ratings · 16,365 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 338,232 ratings — published 2005 — 62 editions
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The Lake of Dreams
3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 5,983 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
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The Secrets of a Fire King
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 1,144 ratings — published 1997 — 23 editions
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SUMMER BOOK CLUB 24MXPPK
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12 Short Stories and Their ...
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3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2005
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
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"A clue in a stained-glass window leads to a startling secret kept hidden for generations in The Lake of Dreams, a new novel from the author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter." ...More

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“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
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“You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.”
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“A moment might be a thousand different things.”
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