Name Christina Kline Role Novelist | Education Yale University | |
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Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction Books Orphan Train, The Way Life Should Be, Sweet water, Desire lines, Bird in Hand: A Novel Profiles | ||
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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.
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- Background
- Teaching career
- Fiction
- Orphan Train
- Non fiction
- As editor
- References
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Background
She was born in Cambridge, England, and raised in Cambridge, the American South, and in Maine. Kline 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.
Teaching career
Kline served as Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University from 2007 to 2011, where she taught graduate and undergraduate creative writing and literature.
Fiction
Orphan Train
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. Since its publication in 2013, Orphan Train has been a bestseller on all the national lists in the U.S.