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Karen Karbo is an award-winning American author.. Her first novel, ''Trespassers Welcome Here'' (1990), was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, as well as a Village Voice Top Ten Book of the Year. Her other two adult novels, ''The Diamond Lane'' (1993) and ''Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me'' (2001), were also named New York Times Notable Books. Karbo's 2004 memoir, ''The Stuff of Life'', is about the last year she spent with her father before his death. It was a NYT Notable Book, a People Magazine Critics' Choice, a Books for a Better Life Award finalist, and a winner of the Oregon Book Award for creative non-fiction. Karbo's short stories, essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in ''Elle'', ''Vogue'', ''Esquire'', ''Outside'', ''O'', ''More'', ''The New Republic'', ''The New York Times'', Salon.com, and other magazines. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, and a winner of the General Electric Younger Writer Award. Karbo is most well known for her best-selling Kick Ass Women series, the most recent of which is ''How Georgia Became O'Keefe'', published in 2011. ''How to Hepburn'', published in 2007, was hailed by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "an exuberant celebration of a great original"; #1 ebook best-seller ''The Gospel According to Coco Chanel'' appeared in 2009. ''Julia Child Rules'', was released on October 1, 2013. In addition, Karbo penned three books in the Minerva Clark mystery series for children: ''Minerva Clark Gets A Clue'', ''Minerva Clark Goes to the Dogs'', and ''Minerva Clark Gives Up the Ghost''. Karen grew up in Los Angeles, California and lives in Portland, Oregon, where she continues to write. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karen Karbo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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