Kathleen Karr

Kathleen Karr (1946-2017) was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and grew up on a chicken farm in Dorothy, New Jersey. After escaping to college, she worked in the film industry, and also taught in high school and college. She seriously began writing fiction on a dare from her husband. After honing her skills in women’s fiction, her children asked her to write a book for them, (It Ain’t Always Easy, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990), and she discovered she loved writing for young readers.

Books

(only romance novels are listed)

• From This Day Forward - 1985
• Gone West - 1993
• Light Of My Heart - 1984
• Promised Land, The - 1993

Awards

• 1986 Golden Medallion Winner - Inspirational Romance, From This Day Forward