Christina Baker Kline
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Christina Baker Kline is a novelist, nonfiction writer and editor. In
addition to THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE, her novels include SWEET
WATER and DESIRE LINES. Her next novel, FOUR WAY STOP, will be
published by William Morrow in Spring of 2009.
Kline commissioned and edited two widely praised collections of
original essays on the first year of parenthood and raising young
children, CHILD OF MINE and ROOM TO GROW. She also
co-authored a book on feminist mothers and daughters, THE
CONVERSATION BEGINS, with her mother, Christina L. Baker. Her
essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times
Book Review, The Yale Review, Southern Living, Ms., Parents, and
Family Life, among other places.
addition to THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE, her novels include SWEET
WATER and DESIRE LINES. Her next novel, FOUR WAY STOP, will be
published by William Morrow in Spring of 2009.
Kline commissioned and edited two widely praised collections of
original essays on the first year of parenthood and raising young
children, CHILD OF MINE and ROOM TO GROW. She also
co-authored a book on feminist mothers and daughters, THE
CONVERSATION BEGINS, with her mother, Christina L. Baker. Her
essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times
Book Review, The Yale Review, Southern Living, Ms., Parents, and
Family Life, among other places.
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Kline is co-editor, with Anne Burt, of an anthology called ABOUT FACE: 25 WOMEN WRITERS WRITE
ABOUT WHAT THEY SEE WHEN THEY LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
Kline was born in Cambridge, England and raised there as well as in the American South and Maine.
She is a graduate of Yale, Cambridge, and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns
Fellow in Fiction Writing. Currently the Writer in Residence at Fordham University, she has taught
fiction and non-fiction writing, poetry, English literature, literary theory, and women’s studies at Yale,
NYU, and Drew University, among other places. She is a recent recipient of a Geraldine R. Dodge
Foundation Fellowship and a Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative
Arts. She donates her time and editing skills to a number of arts organizations in New Jersey and
Maine.
As a freelance editor and consultant, Kline has written, edited, copyedited, and consulted on dozens
of novels, nonfiction books, book proposals, magazine articles, and grant proposals. She has edited
works by many writers, including Susan Cheever, Mona Simpson, Jon Katz, Naomi Wolf, Allegra
Goodman, Kathryn Harrison, Jennifer Baumgardner, and Alice Elliott Dark. Her in-house experience
includes editorial positions at the literary magazines Granta and Callaloo.
Kline has worked as a caterer, cook, and personal chef on the Maine coast, Martha’s Vineyard, and
in Charlottesville, Virginia.
She lives in an old house in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, David Kline; three
boys, Hayden, Will, and Eli; and Lucy, an English Springer Spaniel. She spends summers with
extended family in an even older house on Mount Desert Island in Maine.
ABOUT WHAT THEY SEE WHEN THEY LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
Kline was born in Cambridge, England and raised there as well as in the American South and Maine.
She is a graduate of Yale, Cambridge, and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns
Fellow in Fiction Writing. Currently the Writer in Residence at Fordham University, she has taught
fiction and non-fiction writing, poetry, English literature, literary theory, and women’s studies at Yale,
NYU, and Drew University, among other places. She is a recent recipient of a Geraldine R. Dodge
Foundation Fellowship and a Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative
Arts. She donates her time and editing skills to a number of arts organizations in New Jersey and
Maine.
As a freelance editor and consultant, Kline has written, edited, copyedited, and consulted on dozens
of novels, nonfiction books, book proposals, magazine articles, and grant proposals. She has edited
works by many writers, including Susan Cheever, Mona Simpson, Jon Katz, Naomi Wolf, Allegra
Goodman, Kathryn Harrison, Jennifer Baumgardner, and Alice Elliott Dark. Her in-house experience
includes editorial positions at the literary magazines Granta and Callaloo.
Kline has worked as a caterer, cook, and personal chef on the Maine coast, Martha’s Vineyard, and
in Charlottesville, Virginia.
She lives in an old house in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, David Kline; three
boys, Hayden, Will, and Eli; and Lucy, an English Springer Spaniel. She spends summers with
extended family in an even older house on Mount Desert Island in Maine.
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