Karleen koen biography sample

          Here's my informal biography....

          I never imagined I'd be a writer, but all my life I've made my living that way not only in fiction, but by working for local magazines and specialty news.

        1. I never imagined I'd be a writer, but all my life I've made my living that way not only in fiction, but by working for local magazines and specialty news.
        2. Karleen Koen (née Smith) is an American novelist perhaps best known for her debut historical fiction novel, Through a Glass Darkly.
        3. Here's my informal biography.
        4. A Texas native, Karleen once edited a magazine and now creates powerful historical fiction -- her writing is elegant, bold and dynamic, her.
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          6. Karleen Koen

          American novelist

          Karleen Koen (néeSmith) is an American novelist perhaps best known for her 1986 debut historical fiction novel, Through a Glass Darkly.

          Personal life

          Karleen Smith grew up near Houston, Texas. In 1970, she majored in English and graduated from North Texas State University.[1][2] Koen became the first managing editor of Houston Home & Garden and then its editor.

          She decided to leave in order to focus on family.[2] In 2011 she attended the annual conference of the Historical Novel Society alongside Diana Gabaldon and Margaret George, among others.[3]

          Literary career

          To help pass the dull hours at home, Koen began writing a historical fiction novel on her favorite time period, the eighteenth-century.

          The book centered on teenage noblewoman Barbara Alderley and her trials and travails as she navigates English and French society. To gain a publisher for her work, now called Through a Glass