Nationality American Period 1979 - present | Name Kitty Florey Role Author | |
Notable works Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences (2006), Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting (2009), The Writing Master (2011) Books Sister Bernadette's Barking D, Script and Scribble: The Rise, Souvenir of Cold Springs, Vigil for a Stranger, The Writing Master | ||
Book Lovers Corner: The Writing Master
Kitty Burns Florey is the author of eleven novels and two nonfiction books, including Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences. She is also the author of a genealogical memoir, The Quest for Inez: Two Ways to Find a Grandmother, a mix of fact and fiction. In addition to writing, she works as a freelance copy editor.
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Biography
An only child born and raised in Syracuse, New York, Florey attended St. John the Baptist Academy from 1st to 12th grades; this parochial school experience would later inform some of her nonfiction writing. She has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Boston University as well as a master's degree from Syracuse University, also in English Literature. She has lived in Syracuse, Boston, New Haven, and Brooklyn.
Her most recent nonfiction book, Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting, is an exploration of the history of handwriting and a meditation on its modern function in the digital age. It was published by Melville House Publishing in January, 2009 and was issued as a paperback in September 2013. Her most recent work of fiction is Amity Street, a historical novel set in 1892 in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she now lives.