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 After playing hooky one day in the 7th grade to read Gone With the Wind, Karen
White knew she wanted to become either Scarlett O'Hara - or a writer. Being practical
though, she spent the next dozen years pursuing a BS in management, graduating from
Tulane University and working in business. Later, after leaving the corporate world to
marry and stay home with her children, she fulfilled her dream of becoming a writer
and wrote her first book. In the Shadow of the Moon was published in August, 2000 -
and since then, Karen has published five more books.
Her sixth, Pieces of the Heart, debuted in April
2006 - and this, like her others, is set in the
southern states where her family has roots and
which she knows so well.
Her warm characters, heart-felt plots and
endearing author's voice have combined to give
her readers such a rewarding experience that
each of her works has won multiple awards. At
last count, for her first four novels, she has either
finaled or won 21 awards. These come from all
sectors of the publishing industry, including
readers, booksellers, critics and other authors.
Karen writes what she calls "grit lit" - emotional
southern family dramas. The South, with its lush
landscape of collective history and family tales, is ripe
for storytelling and very hard to resist for this writer.
For this busy American wife and mother of two
children, writing is "something for which I have to
work very hard to carve out time in my everyday life.
If I didn't love to write so much, I would have given
up long ago because squeezing time to write in
between laundry, car-pooling, and being mom-of-all-
trades is one of the most challenging things I've ever
had to do. But I simply couldn't imagine my life any
other way!" |
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