Kitty Burns Florey

Kitty Burns Florey is the author of eleven novels and two nonfiction books, including Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences.^[1] She is also the author of a genealogical memoir, The Quest for Inez: Two Ways to Find a Grandmother, a mix of fact and fiction. In addition to writing, she works as a freelance copy editor.

Biography

An only child born and raised in Syracuse, New York, Florey attended St. John the Baptist Academy from 1st to 12th grades; this parochial school experience would later inform some of her nonfiction writing. She has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Boston University as well as a master's degree from Syracuse University, also in English Literature. She has lived in Syracuse, Boston, New Haven, and Brooklyn.

Her most recent nonfiction book, Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting, is an exploration of the history of handwriting and a meditation on its modern function in the digital age. It was published by Melville House Publishing in January, 2009 and was issued as a paperback in September 2013. Her most recent work of fiction is Amity Street, a historical novel set in 1892 in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she now lives.

Bibliography

• Amity Street (2017) White River Press
• The Quest for Inez: Two Ways to Find a Grandmother (2015) Genealogy House
• The Writing Master (2011) White River Press
• Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting, (2009) Melville House Publishing
• The Sleep Specialist (2007) Raven's Eye Publishing
• Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog (2006) Melville House Publishing
• Solos (2004)
• Souvenir of Cold Springs (2001)
• Five Questions (2001)
• Vigil for a Stranger (1994)
• Duet (1998)
• Real Life, (1986)
• The Garden Path (1983)
• Chez Cordelia (1980)
• Family Matters (1979)

References

External links

• Article for Slate Magazine. "The sentences of Sarah Palin, diagrammed"
• Writer's Subject? Diagramming Sentences on NPR
• Interview at Editrix