Lynne McKelvey
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At age fourteen, Lynne McKelvey won Seventeen magazine's short story contest. After earning degrees in English at Harvard and UC Santa Barbara and founding a singles club in Santa Monica for people with advanced degrees, she veered off into academia, returning only recently to writing fiction.
Set in Southe.... more
At age fourteen, Lynne McKelvey won Seventeen magazine's short story contest. After earning degrees in English at Harvard and UC Santa Barbara and founding a singles club in Santa Monica for people with advanced degrees, she veered off into academia, returning only recently to writing fiction.
Set in Southern California in the late 1970s, McKelvey's debut novel, A Real Daughter, offers readers a frightening take on stepparenting as well as providing a disturbing testament to the unknown in us all.
National Book Award finalist Cristina Garcia calls A Real Daughter "compelling" and "psychologically astute"; Lannon Fiction Award winner Mary Morrissey describes the writing as "luscious and chilling"; and Kirkus Reviews finds the book to be "a morbidly eerie, artfully crafted psychological thriller."
Herself a native Southern Californian, McKelvey now divides her time between Pacific Palisades and Washington DC, where she dotes on her four grandsons.