Beth Kephart

Beth Kephart is the author of A Slant of Sun:  One Child’s Courage, Into the Tangle of Friendship, Still Love in Strange Places and Seeing Past Z: Nurturing the Imagination in a Fast-Forward World. She is the winner of numerous honors including 2000 National Endowment for the Arts Recipient, 1998 National Book Award Finalist, 1998 Salon Best Books of the Year, 1998 Leeway Grant Creative Nonfiction Award, 1997 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Top Grant for Fiction, and 1996 Bread Loaf Merit Scholarship for fiction. In addition, she has written for various magazines and newspapers, including Real Simple, New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Salon.com, Parenting, and Redbook. She lives outside of Philadelphia.

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