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Biography
Cassandra King’s first novel, Making Waves in Zion,
was published in 1995 by River City Press and reissued
in 2004 by Hyperion. Her second novel, The Sunday
Wife (2002), was a Booksense Pick, a People
Magazine Page-Turner of the Week, a Literary Guild
Book-of-the-Month selection, a Books-a-Million
President’s Pick, a South Carolina State Readers’ Circle
selection, and a Salt Lake Library Readers’ Choice Award
nominee. In paperback, the novel was chosen by the
Nestle Corporation in its campaign to promote reading
groups.
Released in 2005, King’s third novel, The Same Sweet
Girls, became a #1 Booksense Selection and Booksense
bestseller, a Southeastern Bookseller Association
bestseller, a New York Post Required Reading
selection, and a Literary Guild Book-of-the-Month Club
selection, and a Southeastern Bookseller Association
Bestseller. King’s latest novel, Queen of Broken
Hearts, has been hailed as “wonderful,” “uplifting,”
“absolutely fabulous,” and filled with irresistible
characters” by fellow Southern writers Sandra Brown,
Fannie Flagg, Dorothea Benton Frank.
King’s short fiction and essays have appeared in
numerous journals and anthologies, including Callaloo,
Alabama Bound: The Stories of a State (1995),
Belles’ Letters: Contemporary Fiction by Alabama Women
(1999), Stories From Where We Live (2002), and
Stories From The Blue Moon Café (2004). Outside her
time working on her fiction, she has taught writing on
the college, conducted corporate writing seminars,
worked as a human-interest reporter for a Pelham,
Alabama, weekly paper, and published an article on her
second-favorite pastime, cooking, in Cooking Light
magazine.
A native of L.A. (Lower Alabama), King currents lives in
the Low Country of South Carolina with her husband,
novelist Pat Conroy, whom she met when he wrote a blurb
for Making Waves.
Most recent publications:
"Lady Jane," short story, Thema literary journal,
1994
"Lady Jane," reprinted, Alabama Bound, anthology,
1995
Making Waves in Zion, novel, River City Press,
1995
"Fig Picking," short story, Belles Letters anthology,
1998
"Teacher’s Pet," article, "Cooking Light"
magazine, 1999
"A Courtroom in Maycomb," article, Callaloo literary
journal, 2000
The Sunday Wife, novel, Hyperion, 2002
"Fig Picking," reprinted, Stories From
Where We Live,
Milkweed Press, 2002
"My Life is a Country Song," Stories from the Blue
Moon Café, 2004
"Circle of Friends," Life Magazine, 2004
The Same Sweet Girls, novel, Hyperion, January
2005
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