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Nina Killham is an American novelist. She is the author of How to Cook a Tart, Mounting Desire and Believe Me. She is also a screenwriter and short story writer.

Biography:

Nina Killham was born in 1961 in Washington DC, the daughter of an American Foreign Service Officer. She lived much of her childhood overseas, attending Rygaards Skole in Copenhagen, Ecole Decroly in Brussels and Jeb Stuart High School in Fairfax, Virginia. She graduated from the College of William and Mary, majoring in government and French. She spent her junior year in Paris majoring in cafes and eating. After university, she worked for a variety of companies including ABC News, the Washington Post, Columbia Pictures and an earplug factory. Her freelance articles appeared in The Washington Post, New York Times, Baltimore Magazine, Life Magazine and Seventeen. In 1998 she moved to London with her Australian husband with whom she has two children.

References:

New York Times review for How to Cook a Tart

The Washington Post review for Mounting Desire

The San Francisco Chronicle review for Believe Me

Bibliography:

How to Cook a Tart, (BloomsburyUSA, 2002) ISBN 1-58234-304-7

Mounting Desire, (BloomsburyUSA, 2005) ISBN 1-58234-571-6

Believe Me, (Penguin, 2009) ISBN 978-0-452-28976-5

External links:

Nina Killham at Penguin

Author's website

Author's blog

Interview with Book Club Queen

entry for Nina Killham