


Set on present-day Mount Desert Island, Maine and in Depression-era Minnesota, Kline's fifth novel, Orphan Train, highlights the real-life story of the orphan trains that between 18 carried thousands of orphaned, abandoned, and destitute children from the East Coast to the Midwest. Kline served as Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University from 2007 to 2011, where she taught graduate and undergraduate creative writing and literature. She is a graduate of Yale ( BA in English), Cambridge University ( MA in literature), and the University of Virginia ( MFA), where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in fiction writing.

She was born in Cambridge, England, and raised in Cambridge, the American South, and in Maine. She is the author of seven novels, including Orphan Train, and has co-authored or edited five non-fiction books. Baker Kline at the Kalamazoo Public Library in 2016Ĭhristina Baker Kline (born 1964) is an American novelist.
