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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
 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 B.S. in Management, graduating cum laude 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 was a double RITA award finalist—and since then, Karen has published seven more books and is a National bestselling author. Her seventh, Learning to Breathe, debuted in March 2007—and this, like her others, is set in the southern states where her family has roots and which she knows so well. Her eighth novel, The Memory of Water, will be published by NAL/Accent in March 2008 and her ninth, The House on Tradd Street, will be published in November 2008.
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