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 About the
Author...
More than
twenty years ago, Caron Kamps Widden left Southern California for
Atlanta to begin a new life and a new career, and as it turned out
-- it was only one of many adventures she would find herself
writing about someday. Shortly after arriving in the south, Caron
met her husband, a transplant himself, from New York. They
married, and embarked upon a series of transfers around the
country for her husband’s work. While raising three children in a
handful of houses, Caron found herself renovating and decorating
each home with care.
Everywhere
they moved, Caron took writing classes and attended writer's
workshops, having always been fond of books and words. In
college, Caron fell in love with the classics, but she also
admires many contemporary authors and revisits their work often.
Caron has written articles, short pieces and poems for literary
journals and small newspapers and has lent a hand at such
publications as, Orange Coast Magazine, and Zoetrope:
All-Story, the literary magazine founded by Francis Ford
Coppola. A work in progress, Caron is always searching for a new
venue from which to learn. In writing
Restoration, her
first novel, Caron learned an important lesson -- perseverance.
When sitting
down to write
Restoration, Caron felt comfortable writing
from a man’s point a view, having been surrounded by men her whole
life and growing up with four brothers. The story and characters
were inspired by a collection of people and places from throughout
the country and the world, not to mention, from the renovation
projects Caron became involved with along the way. Saratoga
Springs, the setting for the book, is near where Caron and her
family lived for two years in the mid-nineties. John Greene, the
protagonist, is a tribute to men who demonstrate great strength of
character, and albeit, a bit clumsy at times, always try to do the
right thing.
Busy at work
on her second novel, Caron is devoted to creating characters and
stories for which everyone can relate. With her husband’s most
recent transfer, Caron finds herself back home in Southern
California -- and in many ways, she feels the ‘new life’ she was
once after has finally just begun.
© 2006 Caron Kamps Widden
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