{{Short description|American writer (born 1961)}} {{Infobox writer | embed = | honorific_prefix = | name = Kate Walbert | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|8|13}} | birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = | language = | residence = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = novelist, short story writer <!-- or: | genres = --> | subject = <!-- or: | subjects = --> | movement = | notableworks = <!-- or: | notablework = --> | spouse = <!-- or: | spouses = --> | partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.org}} --> | portaldisp = <!-- "on", "yes", "true", etc; or omit --> }} '''Kate Walbert''' (born August 13, 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in New York City. Her novel, ''Our Kind'', was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction.<ref>[http://nbafictionfinalists.squarespace.com/blog/2012/6/16/2004-3.html National Book Award]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Her novel ''A Short History of Women'', a ''New York Times'' bestseller, was a finalist for the ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize and named one of the ten best books of 2009 by ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Feminine Mystique (Published 2009) |website=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414221409/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/books/review/Cohen-t.html |archive-date=2023-04-14 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/books/review/Cohen-t.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Los Angeles Times announces finalists for its Book Prizes |date=2014-03-07 |website=Los Angeles Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803215632/https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-book-prizes23-2010feb23-story.html |archive-date=2020-08-03 |url-status=live |url=http://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-book-prizes23-2010feb23-story.html}}</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/10-best-gift-guide-sub/list.html New York Times]</ref>
== Life == Walbert was born in New York City but raised in Georgia, Texas, Japan, and Pennsylvania. After graduating from Choate Rosemary Hall, she attended Northwestern University’s School of Communication before earning a master's degree in English from NYU. Among other publications, her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, and The Paris Review, and has twice been included in The Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Awards.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kate Walbert |website=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606090644/https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kate-walbert |archive-date=2023-06-06 |url-status=live |url=http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kate-walbert}}</ref><ref>[http://www.theparisreview.org/back-issues/144 The Paris Review]</ref><ref>[http://www.hmhco.com/search?segment=All;mm=all;q=Kate%20Walbert The Best American Short Stories]</ref><ref>[https://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/jury.html O. Henry Awards]</ref> She has published two short story collection and five novels. Her first novel, ''The Gardens of Kyoto'', received the Connecticut Book Award in fiction and was a finalist for the IMPAC/Dublin award.<ref>[http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Connecticut+Book+Award Library Thing]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/2003-longlist/ |title=IMPAC Dublin |access-date=2015-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924033955/http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/2003-longlist/ |archive-date=2015-09-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Awards == Walbert was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship.<ref>[http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/walbertkate.html New York State Writers Institute]</ref> From 2011 to 2012, she was a Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library.<ref>[http://www.nypl.org/node/209750 New York Public Library]</ref>
==Partial bibliography==
=== Novels === * ''His Favorites'' (2018) * ''The Sunken Cathedral'' (2015)<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/reviews/novel-s-characters-live-in-land-of-what-ifs-none/article_9df2a1be-c034-596b-beaf-12189d70503f.html| title = Novel's characters live in land of 'What ifs,' none of them good {{!}} Book reviews {{!}} stltoday.com}}</ref> * ''A Short History of Women'' (2009) * ''Our Kind'' (2004) * ''The Gardens of Kyoto'' (2001)
=== Short fiction === * ''She Was Like That: New and Selected Stories'' (2019) * ''Where She Went'' (1998)
=== Plays === * ''Genius'' * ''A Short History of Women'' (an adaptation) * ''Elsewhere'' * ''Year of the Woman''
== Reviews == *Reviewing ''A Short History of Women'', The Washington Post called Walbert “reminiscent of a host of innovative writers from Virginia Woolf to Muriel Spark to Pat Barker.”<ref>{{cite web |title=Book Review: 'A Short History of Women' by Kate Walbert |website=The Washington Post |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208225629/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/11/AR2009061104519.html |archive-date=2017-02-08 |url-status=live |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/11/AR2009061104519.html}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == # [http://www.katewalbert.com Kate Walbert's website] # [http://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-book-prizes23-2010feb23-story.html Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists 2010] # [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/books/review/Cohen-t.html Sunday Book Review "A Short History of Women" by Leah Hager Cohen] # [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/11/AR2009061104519.html Washington Post Book Review: A Short History of Women] # [http://nbafictionfinalists.squarespace.com/blog/2012/6/16/2004-3.html "Our Kind"]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} on [http://www.nationalbook.org nationalbook.org] # [http://www.timeout.com/newyork/books/kate-walbert-on-a-short-history-of-women "Kate Walbert on A Short History of Women" by Eryn Loeb]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} for [http://www.timeout.com/newyork Time Out New York] # [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4174143 Kate Walbert Interview] on [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4174143 NPR] # [http://bitchmagazine.org/post/women-in-search-of-a-voice-an-interview-with-kate-walbert-author-of-ia-short-history-of-womeni Kate Walbert Interview] from [http://bitchmagazine.org bitchmagazine.org] # [https://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm/author_number/593/kate-walbert Kate Walbert Interview] from [https://www.bookbrowse.com/index.cfm? bookbrowse.com]
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