Kim Edwards (born 1958) is an American author and educator. Her first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2005), is a New York Times Bestseller, and was honored with the Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award at the 2008 British Book Awards.
She wrote the short story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King (1997), which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, and has won both a Whiting Awardand the Nelson Algren Award. A graduate of Colgate University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she currently teaches writing at the University of Kentucky.
Her most recent novel, The Lake of Dreams, a New York Times best seller, was published in January 2011.
金·爱德华兹:生于德州,长于纽约,现为肯德基大学英文系助理教授,常于各地举办写作工作坊,著有短篇小说集《火王的秘密》。《不存在的女儿》是她出版的第一部长篇小说。
她是美国各大文学奖项的常胜客。2002年她获得怀丁基金会的怀丁作家奖(Whiting Award),1998年则人选海明威文学奖。她还得过芝加哥论坛报举办的倪尔森爱格林奖(Nelson Algren Award),全国杂志奖(National Magazine Award)等等。