Denison: Beck Series Author Kim Edwards

Denison’s Beck Series welcomes Kim Edwards, author of the best-selling novel “The Memory Keepers Daughter.” Edwards also is the author of a story collection, “The Secrets of a Fire King,” which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review, Story, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, and many other periodicals and she has received many awards for the short story as well, including a Pushcart Prize, the National Magazine Award, the Nelson Algren Award, and inclusion in both The Best American Short Stories and the Symphony Space program ‘Selected Shorts.’ “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter,” her first novel, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Award pick and became a word-of-mouth best-seller, spending 122 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, 20 of those weeks at #1. “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” won the Kentucky Literary Award and the British Book Award, and was chosen as Book of the Year for 2006 by USA Today. Her second novel, “The Lake of Dreams,” an Independent Booksellers pick, was also an international best seller; her work has been published in more than 32 countries. Currently, Edwards is working on a new novel, as well as a collection of related stories.