ABOUT THE AUTHOR

KAREN KARBO is the author of multiple novels, works of creative nonfiction, and a memoir. Her genre-bending Kick-Ass Women series includes Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life; How Georgia Became O’Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living; How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great; and the international best seller, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World’s Most Elegant Woman. Her novels, Trespassers Welcome Here, The Diamond Lane, and Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me, were named New York Times Notable Books, as was her memoir, The Stuff of Life. Her work has also appeared in Elle, Vogue, Outside, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Condé Nast Traveler, Salon, Slate, and other magazines. Recently she was selected as one of 24 authors for the inaugural Amtrak Residency. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, an Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, and a winner of the General Electric Younger Writer Award. Karen and The Man of the House (her partner of 16 years) live with their three dogs in Portland, Oregon.