Anna Keesey
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Anna Keesey

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Anna Keesey is the author of LITTLE CENTURY, a literary historical novel set in the high desert country of Central Oregon in the year 1900, published June 2012 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. In its debut season, LITTLE CENTURY has been given highest marks by readers and literary critics (New York Times book review, The Washington Post, O Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Millions, The Rumpus), who love its engrossing mystery, the tenderness of its romance, its haunting western landscape, and the exhilarating transformation of its young heroine. Keesey's fiction, nonfiction, and book reviews have also appeared in journals and newspapers such as Grand Street, Tin House Magazine, The Best American Short Stories, The Chicago Tribune and the Oregonian. She has been the recipient of awards, prizes and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry. Keesey grew up in Oregon, and attended Stanford University and the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. After many years in other places, she now lives in Oregon's Yamhill Valley and teaches undergraduate writers at Linfield College, a selective small liberal arts college in McMinnville. Many of the glowing reviews of LITTLE CENTURY are collected under the blog tab on Keesey's website, www.annakeesey.com. Keesey has also had many discussions with interviewers, radio hosts, and readers, and these are also collected under the blog tab on the website. She can be contacted several ways via the website. Happy reading!
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