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Christina Baker Kline is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, The Exiles, and The Foursome (2026). Her novels are published in more than 40 countries.

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Christina Baker Kline is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including Orphan Train, The Exiles, and The Foursome (2026), a national bestseller and New England Book Award finalist. With Anne Burt she writes the Crystal River thrillers, Please Don't Lie and Watch Her Lie (March 2027). Published in more than 40 countries, her novels have received the New England Prize for Fiction and the Maine Literary Award, and hundreds of communities have chosen them as "One Book" selections.

100 Word Bio
Christina Baker Kline is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including Orphan Train, The Exiles, A Piece of the World, and The Foursome (2026), a national bestseller that received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal and was a New England Book Award finalist. With Anne Burt she writes the Crystal River thrillers, Please Don't Lie and Watch Her Lie (March 2027). Her novels are published in more than 40 countries, have won the New England Prize for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and have been chosen by hundreds of communities, universities, and schools as "One Book, One Read" selections. She is Vice President of the Authors Guild.

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Christina Baker Kline is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including Orphan Train, The Exiles, A Piece of the World, and The Foursome (2026), a reimagining of the two North Carolina sisters, Kline's own distant relatives, who married the conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker. The Foursome, a national bestseller, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal and was a New England Book Award finalist. With Anne Burt she writes the Crystal River thrillers, Please Don't Lie (2025) and Watch Her Lie (March 2027).

Published in more than 40 countries, her novels have received the New England Prize for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and have been chosen by hundreds of communities, universities, and schools as "One Book, One Read" selections. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, among other publications.

Kline was born in Cambridge, England, and raised there, in the American South, and in Maine. She is a graduate of Yale, Cambridge, and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. She is Vice President of the Authors Guild and serves on the board of Poets & Writers. She lives in New York City and Southwest Harbor, Maine.

400 Word Bio
Christina Baker Kline is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten novels: The Foursome (2026), Please Don't Lie (2025, with Anne Burt), The Exiles, A Piece of the World, Orphan Train, Orphan Train Girl (middle grade), Bird in Hand, The Way Life Should Be, Desire Lines, and Sweet Water. Watch Her Lie, the second Crystal River thriller with Anne Burt, will be published in March 2027. She is the author or editor of five nonfiction books: The Conversation Begins, Child of Mine, Room to Grow, About Face, and Always Too Soon. Her work is published in more than 40 countries.

The Foursome, a reimagining of the two North Carolina sisters, Kline's own distant relatives, who married the conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, is a national bestseller, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal, was a New England Book Award finalist, and its audiobook won a Kirkus Earphones Award. Her novels have received the New England Prize for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, the Inter-Allied Union Prize of the Cercle Interallié (Paris), and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and have been chosen by hundreds of communities, universities, and schools as "One Book, One Read" selections. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The San Francisco Chronicle, and in anthologies including Stories from Suffragette City and Lolita in the Afterlife.

Kline was born in England and raised in the American South and Maine. She holds degrees from Yale (B.A.), Cambridge (M.A.), and the University of Virginia (M.F.A.), where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. She has taught fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, English literature, literary theory, and women's studies at Yale, NYU, UVA, Drew, and Fordham, where she was Writer-in-Residence for four years. She teaches regularly at writing conferences and leads international writing retreats.

Kline is Vice President of the Authors Guild and serves on the board of Poets & Writers, where she co-chairs the Authors Circle. She heads the Advisory Board of the Kaua'i Writers Conference, sits on the advisory boards of the Montclair Literary Festival and Roots & Wings, and is a member of the Writers Council of the Center for Fiction. She also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is an Author-Ambassador for Room to Read.

She lives in New York City and Southwest Harbor, Maine, with her husband, David Kline. They have three sons: Hayden, Will, and Eli.

Scholarships:

• Christina Baker Kline Scholarship for Maine Writers, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance

: This scholarship covers the cost of both a one-year membership to the MWPA and registration fees for two MWPA writing workshops during the year, as well as career and manuscript consultation with Christina.
• Christina Baker Scholarship for Indigenous Students, College of The Atlantic

: The four-year scholarship is awarded to students with financial need, with a preference toward Wabanaki and Native American students and students engaged in gender studies and literature.

Organizations & Causes:
•The Authors Guild (NYC): Supports working writers. Advocates for the rights of writers by supporting free speech, fair contracts, and copyright. Creates community and fights for a living wage.
•Poets & Writers (NYC): Fosters the professional development of poets and writers, promotes communication throughout the literary community, and helps create an environment in which literature can be appreciated by the widest possible public.
•The Center for Fiction (NYC): The only nonprofit literary organization in the U.S. solely dedicated to celebrating fiction. Connects readers and writers.
•Room to Read: A global nonprofit that works to improve literacy and gender inequality.
•Roots & Wings (NJ): Provides young adults who age out of New Jersey’s foster care system with safe housing, case management, education, counseling, and life skills in order to empower them toward self-sufficiency.
•PEN (NYC): Unites writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defends the liberties that make it possible.
•Southwest Harbor Public Library (ME): The Southwest Harbor Public Library's mission is to "inspire and support the enjoyment of life-long learning, the love of literacy, and the exploration of new ideas, welcoming everyone through its doors."
•Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance: Founded in 1975 by a group of writers and publishers, the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance works to enrich the literary life and culture of Maine.
•The Jesup/Bar Harbor Memorial Library (ME): A vibrant center for educational exchange, creative community collaboration, and knowledge-sharing where we connect people to ideas, people to information, and people to people.
•Friends of Acadia (ME): Friends of Acadia preserves, protects, and promotes stewardship of the outstanding natural beauty, ecological vitality, and distinctive cultural resources of Acadia National Park and surrounding communities for the inspiration and enjoyment of current and future generations.
•Harbor House, Southwest Harbor (ME): A non-profit community service organization serving the communities of Mount Desert Island. With seven program areas and a roster of more than 40 health, fitness, educational, sports, community-based and youth-focused classes and activities, Harbor House serves every age group and every economic level and has done so for 55 years and counting.