Christina Baker Kline

Christina Baker Kline was born in England, and is of Irish descent. She moved around while growing up, living in England, Maine, and Tennessee. She studied English at Yale and has a Master of Arts in Literature from Cambridge University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Virginia. Kline was also a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia and received the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship. From 2007 to 2011, she taught creative writing at Fordham University. She has written six novels: Sweet Water (1993), Desire Lines (1999), The Way Life Should Be (2007), Bird in Hand (2009), Orphan Train (2013) and A Piece of the World (2017). She co-wrote a book called The Conversation Begins with her mother, Christina L. Baker. The book features interviews with noteworthy modern feminists and their mothers. Kline is married and currently lives outside of New York City.