Jane Kirkpatrick

Jane Kirkpatrick is the author of 17 historical novels and three nonfiction titles, all based on the lives of actual historical people. Her works have won the Wrangler Award (also won by Barbara Kingsolver and Larry McMurtry) and have been chosen for the Literary Guild, Crossings and Doubleday book clubs. Her latest novel, The Daughter's Walk (April 2011), about 19-year-old Clara Estby iand her 7,000-mile walk from Spokane to New York in 1896, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. She and her husband homestead 160 remote acres in Eastern Oregon. See her website here.