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Interviews/Profiles/Q&As

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Book Idea Research The Characters Themes and Location Art and Wyeth


Profiles/Interviews

  • Fiction Writers Review, Creating New Worlds: An Interview with Christina Baker Kline 6/2018
  • Maine Public Radio, Maine Author Brings Andrew Wyeth’s ‘Christina’s World’ to Life (ME) 3/2017
  • The Huffington Post, “Christina Baker Kline on Losing Her Mom, Leaning on Her Sisters, and Why Talking About Complicated Relationships Helps” 2/2017
  • The Boston Globe,“Breathing New Life into the Tale of a Disabled Girl and a Painter in Rural Maine” 2/2017
  • The Montclair Local, “Montclair’s Christina Baker Kline talks Christina” (NJ) 3/2017
  • The Portland Press Herald, “The Work of Recreating ‘Christina’s World'” (ME) 8/2017
  • The San Diego Union-Tribune, “Novelist Spins Story from Famous Painting” (CA) 3/2017
  • The Aspen Times, “The Painter, the Muse, and the Novelist Christina Baker Kline” (CO) 2/2018
  • Dallas News, “‘Orphan Train’ author Christina Baker Kline on her newest: ‘I felt like it almost killed me'” (TX) 4/2017
  • New Jersey Monthly, “A Famous “World” –Revisited in Christina Baker Kline” (NJ) 2/2017
  • The Ellsworth American, “Wyeth’s iconic painting inspires bestselling novel” (ME) 4/2017
  • Greenville Journal, “The story behind Wyeth’s most iconic painting gets told” (SC) 3/2017
  • Bangor Daily News, “Bangor native uses Maine’s most iconic painting as inspiration for novel” (ME) 3/2016
  • The Fordham Observer, “Inside the Mind of Christina Baker Kline”  (Fordham student newspaper, NY) 3/2017
  • The Columbus Dispatch, “Thurber House speaker’s book imagines life of girl in iconic Wyeth painting” (OH) 2/2017
  • Omnivoracious, The Amazon Book Review, “The Mystery Woman in the Field: Kristin Hannah Asks Christina Baker Kline About “A Piece of the World”” 2/2017
  • Leslie Lindsay, “Wednesdays with Writers: Ever wondered who that girl was in the famed Andrew Wyeth American painting? Christina Baker Kline tackles that and more in her gloriously written imagined memoir A PIECE OF THE WORLD“ 4/2017
  • Deborah Kalb Books, “Q&A with Christina Baker Kline” 3/2017
  • Nuvo: Indy’s alternative voice, “A painter’s subject, written to life” (IN) 4/2017
  • Cavalier Daily, “In Conversation with Christina Baker Kline” (UVA student newspaper, VA) 3/2017
  • Laura Nicole Diamond “Meet the Author: Christina Baker Kline” 2/2017
  • SCAD District, “Christina Baker Kline Discusses Writing and New Book” (Savannah College of Arts and Design student newspaper, GA) 2/2017
  • Goodreads, “Christina Baker Kline’s Favorite Novels on Hardship and Resilience”  2/2017
  • Hasty Book List, “Author Interview: Christina Baker Kline“ 6/2017
  • The Daily Progress, “Painting of ‘the embodiment of human strength’ inspired fictional memoir” (VA) 3/2017
  • Good Reading, Author Profile: Christina’s World (Aus) 3/2017
  • SCAD District, “Christina Baker Kline Gives Readers ‘A Piece of the World’” (Savannah College of Arts and Design student newspaper, GA) 2/2017

Other Links

  • The New Yorker, “The Pilgrims Who Visited the House in Andrew Wyeth’s ‘Christina’s World'” 5/2019

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COMING MAY 2026: THE FOURSOME

A literary historical novel set in Civil War-era North Carolina, based on a true family story and told from the perspective of Sarah Bunker, one of two sisters who married Chang and Eng, the famous conjoined twins…learn more

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