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Karen Karbo is the author of three novels – Trespassers Welcome Here, The
Diamond Lane and Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me
-- all of which were named New York Times
Notable Books.
The Stuff of Life, about caring for her father during the
last year of his life, was a People Magazine Critic's Choice, a selection of the
Satellite Sisters Radio Book Club, a winner of the Oregon Book Award for Creative
Nonfiction, and also a Times Notable Book.
A past winner of the General Electric Young Writer Award, Karen is in
addition the recipient of an NEA Grant. Her (embarrassingly stupendous number of)
essays, reviews and articles have appeared in Outside, Elle, Vogue, Esquire, Redbook, More, Self,
Sports Illustrated for Women, The New Republic, Psychology Today and The New
York Times.
She is also the author of the Minerva Clark series of mysteries
for middle grade
readers. Conceived to entertain her fifth grade daughter, the series follows the
adventures of seventh grade Minerva, a barely teenaged sleuth who’s been called
“a cross between Adrian Monk and Nancy Drew.” The most recent adventure is
Minerva
Clark Goes to the Dogs, which appeared in September 2006.
Minerva Clark Gives Up the Ghost will appear in late 2007.
But wait, there's more.
Karen’s most recent title is How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate
the Great, a contemporary reassessment of one of America’s greatest
icons. The guidebook-cum-cultural memoir will appear from Bloomsbury on May 12,
2007, the centenary of the redoubtable Miss Hepburn’s birth.
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