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Kathy Hepinstall was born in Odessa, Texas and was raised mostly in Spring, Texas, two hours from the Louisiana border, where most of her relatives still reside. She lives in Austin, Texas. Her first novel, The House of Gentle Men was published in 2000 and her second, The Absence of Nectar, was published in 2001. The House of Gentle Men was a finalist in the Penn Faulkner awards West and was featured on the LA Times Bestseller list. Her third novel, Prince of Lost Places, was published in 2003.
Hepinstall has also worked in advertising, both freelancing and working for several agencies in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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Life is That Big
I lived in Texas and Oklahoma until I was about six years old. Then my father
moved us to New Jersey. My Texas accent never recovered from the two years I
spent there. The rest of my childhood I lived in Spring Texas, a couple hours
from the Louisiana border.
After I received my bachelor's degree from The University of Texas in Austin,
Texas, I moved to Houston to try to join the creative writing master's program
at The University of Houston. Being declared "marginal," I never got
into the program. Instead, I took the literature route and received my master's
degree two and a half years later.
I then moved to Los Angeles and entered the world of advertising - doing work
for Coca-Cola, Nike, Ortho Weed Killer, and just about any other product you can
name. Then three or four years ago, I moved to Austin, Texas and began writing
seriously. Much of the time I drew heavily on my relatives from Louisiana.
Every year the relatives get together in Louisiana and clean out the family
graveyard. Last year we had our first official graveyard softball game because
we liked the sound of it. Currently I'm working on a book set in a graveyard
because the subject fascinates me. Our family cemetery is very ...
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