About Face: Women Write about What They See When They Look in the Mirror (2008), with Anne BurtĪs 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.Always Too Soon: Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents (2006), with Allison Gilbert.Room to Grow: Twenty-Two Writers Encounter the Pleasures and Paradoxes of Raising Young Children (1999).Child of Mine: Original Essays on Becoming a Mother (1997).The Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk about Living Feminism (1994), with her mother, Christina Looper Baker.Since its publication in 2013, Orphan Train has been a bestseller on all the national lists in the U.S.

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 18 carried thousands of orphaned, abandoned, and destitute children from the East Coast to the Midwest.

Kline served as Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University from 2007 to 2011, where she taught graduate and undergraduate creative writing and literature. 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. She was born in Cambridge, England, and raised in Cambridge, the American South, and in Maine. She is the author of seven novels, including Orphan Train, and has co-authored or edited five non-fiction books. Baker Kline at the Kalamazoo Public Library in 2016Ĭhristina Baker Kline (born 1964) is an American novelist.

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