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Christina Baker Kline

January 01, 1970

Christina Baker Kline (born 1964) is an American novelist. She is the author of seven novels, including Orphan Train, and has co-authored or edited five non-fiction books. Kline is a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship recipient.[citation needed]

Christina Baker Kline
Kline at the Kalamazoo Public Library in 2016
Born1964 (age 59–60)
Cambridge, England
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
EducationYale University (BA)
University of Cambridge (MA)
University of Virginia (MFA)
Website
christinabakerkline.com

Background edit

She was born in Cambridge, England, and raised in Cambridge, the American South, and in Maine. She is a graduate of Yale (BA in English), Cambridge University (MA in literature), and the University of Virginia (MFA), where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in fiction writing.[1]

Teaching career edit

Kline served as Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University from 2007 to 2011, where she taught graduate and undergraduate creative writing and literature.[2]

Works edit

Fiction edit

  • Sweet Water (1993)
  • Desire Lines (1999)
  • The Way Life Should Be (2007)
  • Bird in Hand (2009)
  • Orphan Train (2013)
  • A Piece of the World (2017)[3]
  • Orphan Train Girl (2017)[4]
  • The Exiles (2020)[5]

Orphan Train edit

Set on present-day Mount Desert Island, Maine and in Depression-era Minnesota, Kline's fifth novel, Orphan Train, highlights the real-life story of the orphan trains that between 1854 and 1929 carried thousands of orphaned, abandoned, and destitute children from the East Coast to the Midwest.[6] Since its publication in 2013, Orphan Train has been a bestseller on all the national lists in the U.S.[7]

Non-fiction edit

  • The Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk about Living Feminism (1994), with her mother, Christina Looper Baker.[8]

As editor edit

  • Child of Mine: Original Essays on Becoming a Mother (1997)
  • Room to Grow: Twenty-Two Writers Encounter the Pleasures and Paradoxes of Raising Young Children (1999)
  • Always Too Soon: Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents (2006), with Allison Gilbert
  • About Face: Women Write about What They See When They Look in the Mirror (2008), with Anne Burt

Me Too campaign edit

As part of the #MeToo campaign, in late October 2017, Baker Kline penned an essay published by Slate magazine in which she accused former president George H. W. Bush of inappropriately touching her and telling an inappropriate joke while she posed for a photo with him during an April 2014 event benefiting the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. She further stated that the driver who chauffeured her (and had "introduced herself as a friend of the Bush family"), overheard her tell the story to her husband and requested that she remain "discreet" about the incident. Baker Kline stated in her essay that the driver's reaction made her suspicious that her case was not unique, thinking that "the people around President Bush were accustomed to doing damage control," and the #MeToo campaign confirmed her suspicions.[9]

References edit

  1. ^ "Christina's Bio". Christina Baker Kline web page. Retrieved April 13, 2014.
  2. ^ "People - Faculty". Fordham University English Department.
  3. ^ Kline, Christina Baker (December 7, 2016). "A Piece of the World". Kirkus Review. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  4. ^ ORPHAN TRAIN GIRL by Christina Baker Kline , Sarah Thomson | Kirkus Reviews.
  5. ^ THE EXILES | Kirkus Reviews.
  6. ^ "After Tragedy, Young Girl Shipped West On 'Orphan Train'". NPR. April 11, 2013. Retrieved April 13, 2014.
  7. ^ Kline, Christina Baker (May 10, 2013). "Hard choice: Going straight to softcover". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved April 13, 2014.
  8. ^ "Christina Looper Baker". Bangor Daily News. January 18, 2013.
  9. ^ Baker Kline, Christina (October 26, 2017). "George H.W. Bush Groped Me, Too". Slate. Retrieved November 13, 2017.

External links edit

 
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  • Official website
  • USA Today: 'Orphan Train' on surprise trip up the best-seller list
  • Forbes Magazine: How A Veteran Novelist Leveraged Target's Sales Clout And The Hidden Power Of The Paperback To Crack The Bestseller List
  • Publishers Weekly: With 'Orphan Train,' Author Finds Bestsellerdom Fifth Time Around

January 01, 1970
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