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Karen Karbo is the author of three novels, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books; and four nonfiction books, including How to Hepburn. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, Elle, and Vogue, and on salon.com. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Chesley McLaren, known as ?The French Illustrator in New York” for her Francophile style, has also worked as a Fifth Avenue fashion designer.

Karen Karbo is a novelist, journalist, and witty, no-nonsense social commentator, and is the author ofHow to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great, a biography-cum-guidebook the Philadelphia Inquirer called “an exuberant celebration of a great original.” Karbo is also the author ofMinerva Clark Gives Up the Ghost, the third installment in a trilogy about a seventh-grade girl detective who has a peculiar gift: self-confidence. Karbo’s debut novel,Trespassers Welcome Here, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and all three of her novels have been namedNew York Times notable books. The Stuff of Life, her memoir about her father, was a People Magazine Critic’s Pick and winner of the Oregon Book Award. Her work essays, reviews, and articles can be found inOutside, Elle, Vogue, Esquire, Redbook, More,Self, Entertainment Weekly, the New Republic, the Oregonian, and theNew York Times.

Karbo also hails from a family of designers. Her grandmother, Luna of California, was a well-known designer of couture in Los Angeles in the 50s, and her father was an industrial designer who in 1942 designed the hood ornament for the Lincoln Continental, still in use today. She lives in Portland, Oregon.