Cheyenne

Cheyenne asked Christina Baker Kline:

Your new book based on your great-great aunts sounds fascinating! Does the research process feel different when it is a story that is close to your family/heart? Or do all of your topics/project become close to your heart throughout the course the research process?

Christina Baker Kline I love this question. I think every story becomes close to my heart through the process of exploring character. In some ways it's harder when the characters are based on real people; you need to have courage to invent their inner lives (as I found with Christina Olson, Andrew Wyeth's muse, in A Piece of the World, and Mathinna, based on a real person, in The Exiles). I"m going to North Carolina next week to do research where my new novel takes place, Mount Airy/Wilkes County. Can't wait to get a sense of the physical world and imagine my characters' place in it.

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Lana

Lana asked Christina Baker Kline:

"Orphan Train" was completely absorbing, I could hardly put it down. How is it you were born in Cambridge, but grew up in Maine? I did a study abroad program in Cambridge, a lovely city. Would you ever choose it as a setting for one of your novels?

Sally

Sally asked Christina Baker Kline:

I wanted to thank you so much for writing A Piece of the World. Did you realize it made a wonderfully visual audiobook? It felt like I was watching a Masterpiece Theatre show in my mind! I was so intrigued not knowing which parts were factual and fiction, that now it has led me to find out more about the Wyeths and Olsons as well. I will definitely want to read all your other books as soon as I can.

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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

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