https://katechristensen.net
Kate Christensen is an American novelist. She won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction for her fourth novel, The Great Man, whose ironic title refers to a recently deceased painter but whose focus is on the women in his life. The "great man" of her novel is Oscar Feldman, a New York artist who resisted the 20th-century trend toward abstraction, winning fame and fortune by obsessively painting female nudes. Now that he's dead, at 78, two competing biographers are pursuing the three women in his life who've survived him -- notably his wife, his long-term mistress and his sister, herself a painter but less well-known.
Kates previous novels are In the Drink (1999), Jeremy Thrane (2001), and The Epicure's Lament (2004). Her latest novel, "Trouble" was released on June 2, 2009. She is a graduate of Reed College, Class of 1986, and the Iowa Writers Workshop.
