Author, Kim Edwards

Elisa Parker interviews Kim Edwards, the author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, a 122-week New York Times bestseller, and discusses her new release, The Lake of Dreams. Edwards won the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award for her collection of short stories, The Secret's of a Fire King, which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award. Her short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Antaeus, Story and The Paris Review and two were performed at Symphony Space and broadcast on Public Radio International. Edwards also teaches writing at the University of Kentucky.