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Kate Christensen

KATE CHRISTENSEN is the author of the novels In the Drink, Jeremy Thrane, and The Epicure's Lament. Her essays and articles have appeared in various publications, including Salon, Mademoiselle, The Hartford Courant, Elle, and the bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.

Awards: PEN (2008)

Genres: Literary Fiction, Romance

Novels

   In the Drink (1999)
   Jeremy Thrane (2001)
   The Epicure's Lament (2004)
   The Great Man (2007)
   Trouble (2009)
   The Astral (2011)
   The Last Cruise (2018)
   Welcome Home, Stranger (2023)

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Awards

2008 PEN/Faulkner Award : The Great Man

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Teddy (2024)
Emily Dunlay
"Teddy is a luscious joyride of a novel, a portrait of a lady who's a beautiful welter of lust, appetite, and longing. Teddy is Lily Bart with gusto and moxie, Isabel Archer with tenacious grit. I rooted for her gleefully until the surprise ending, which Dunlay pulls off with sly, masterful timing. Glamorous and suspenseful, this is a literary romp."

Bad Animals (2024)
Sarah Braunstein
"Bad Animals opens with a delightful shock, and then the fun begins. With deft, sly, loving insight into the human animal and its genius for self-deception, Braunstein ratchets up and sustains this extraordinary novel's elegance and complexity until the last, beautiful sentence."

Goldenseal (2024)
Maria Hummel
"Goldenseal is a savagely beautiful novel about the dangers and damages of passionate lifelong female friendship, intertwined with a brilliantly wrought elegy for the twentieth century. Hummel is a powerful writer. This book is extraordinary."

Pete and Alice in Maine (2023)
Caitlin Shetterly
"In this taut, riveting novel, Shetterly has created a lush, raw world: a passionate and damaged marriage; a family coming apart and knitting back together during a pandemic; a starkly unwelcoming place that becomes home. In all its multi-layered emotional facets, this book cuts deep, moving and true to the end."

The Rise and Fall of Ava Arcana (2023)
Jennifer Banash
"This dark, sexy novel combines the rocker-chick moxie of Daisy Jones & the Six with the psychological-thriller plot twists of Social Creature. Banash's clear, lush prose makes The Rise and Fall of Ava Arcana a gripping read."

What Napoleon Could Not Do (2023)
DK Nnuro
"In his brilliant debut, DK Nnuro shows us what happens when we do--and don't--get our heart's desire. The characters in this novel are fascinating in their honesty, their hope, and their humor, and their story is unforgettable: involving, surprisingly, and very human."

Lungfish (2022)
Meghan Gilliss
"Lungfish is as suspenseful as a thriller, as finely wrought as a poem, and as heartbreaking as a love song. Meghan Gilliss is an extraordinary writer. I loved this book."

Jane of Hearts and Other Stories (2022)
Katharine Weber
"Weber's sly, elegant stories unfurl to reveal themselves from inside out, startlingly beautiful, sharp-edged, funny, and moving. This collection is sheer pleasure to read."

God of Mercy (2021)
Okezie Nwọka
"This beautiful book has magic in it, and grace, and power."

Leonora in the Morning Light (2021)
Michaela Carter
"Michaela Carter's brilliant new novel is a fully imagined portrait of the sexual and artistic coming of age of a Great Woman. Leonora in the Morning Light is breathtaking and bold, formidably well researched and entrancingly beautiful."

The Captives (2018)
Debra Jo Immergut
"The Captives is a powerful novel, complex, dark, and enthralling. The story is riveting, all the way to the thrillingly twisted ending. Immergut's brand of literary noir masterfully interweaves points of view, voices, and temporal shifts, with dialogue as sharp and clean as cut glass. Bravo!"

Catalina (2017)
Liska Jacobs
"Catalina's feminist fatale narrator, Elsa, has both the heartbroken cynicism of Daisy Buchanan and the inscrutable seductiveness of Carmen in The Big Sleep. Liska Jacobs writes crystal-clear, hypnotically sensual prose, and Catalina is California noir at its darkest and sharpest."

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