Christina Baker Kline

Christina Baker Kline (born 1964) is an American novelist. She is the author of seven novels, including Orphan Train, and has co-authored or edited five non-fiction books. Kline is a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship recipient. 2Background She was born in Cambridge, England, and raised in Cambridge, the American South, and in Maine. Kline is a graduate of Yale (BA in English), Cambridge University (MA in Literature), and the University of Virginia (MFA), where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction Writing. 2Teaching career Kline served as Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University from 2007 to 2011, where she taught graduate and undergraduate creative writing and literature. 2Works 3Fiction Sweet Water (1993) Desire Lines (1999) The Way Life Should Be (2007) Bird in Hand (2009) Orphan Train (2013) A Piece of the World (2017) Orphan Train Girl (2017) 4Orphan Train Set on present-day Mount Desert Island, Maine and in Depression-era Minnesota, Kline's fifth novel, Orphan Train, highlights the real-life story of the orphan trains that between 1854 and 1929 carried thousands of orphaned, abandoned, and destitute children from the East Coast to the Midwest. Since its publication in 2013, Orphan Train has been a bestseller on all the national lists in the U.S. 3Non-fiction The Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk about Living Feminism (1994), with her mother, Christina L. Bake