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Beth Kephart

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Beth Kephart

About Beth Kephart

National Book Award finalist Beth Kephart is the award-winning author of more than three dozen books in multiple genres, an award-winning teacher of memoir at the University of Pennsylvania, a widely published essayist, and a paper artist. Her new book for adults is My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera. Her new book for children is Good Books for Bad Children: The Genius of Ursula Nordstrom. You can find out more about Beth at bethkephartbooks.com and bind-arts.com.

Fun Facts

  • Beth Kephart's memoir A Slant of Sun: One Child’s Courage was a National Book Award finalist.
  • She has won a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts grant, a Leeway Foundation grant, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fiction grant.
  • She has written across many genres: Her 20+ books include memoir, YA and middle-grade novels, poetry, essays, and even an “autobiography” of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River.
  • She teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania.

Titles By Beth Kephart