Cassandra King Conroy
CASSANDRA KING is an award-winning author of five novels, a book of nonfiction, numerous short stories, magazine articles, and essays. She has taught creative writing on the college level, conducted corporate writing seminars, and worked as a human interest reporter.
King’s first novel, MAKING WAVES has been through numerous printings since its release in 1995. Her second novel, the New York Times bestseller THE SUNDAY WIFE, was a Booksense choice; a Literary Guild and Book-of-the-Month Club selection; a People Magazine Page-Turner of the Week; Books-a-Million President’s Pick; Utah’s Salt Lake Libraries Readers’ Choice Award nominee; and a South Carolina Readers’ Circle selection. As one of Booksense’s top discussion selections, THE SUNDAY WIFE was selected by the Nestle Corporation for a national campaign to promote reading groups.
THE SAME SWEET GIRLS was the national number one Booksense Selection on its release in January 2005; a Book-of-the-Month Club and Literary Guild selection; and spent several weeks on both the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. Both THE SUNDAY WIFE and THE SAME SWEET GIRLS were nominated for SIBA’s Book of the Year Award. A fourth novel, QUEEN OF BROKEN HEARTS, set in King’s home state of Alabama and released March 2007, became a Literary Guild and Book-of-the-Month Club Selection as well as a SIBA bestseller. The fifth novel, MOONRISE Moonrise, was a SIBA Okra Pick and a Southern Booksellers bestseller, as was her book of non-fiction, released in 2013, THE SAME SWEET GIRLS GUIDE TO LIVE.
Most recently, King has been writing for Coastal Living and Southern Living as well as contributing essays to various anthologies. She is presently at work on a memoir/cookbook tentatively titled SUPPER FOR ONE: A LOVE STORY IN RECIPES.
King was born and raised in Pinckard, Alabama, a small community outside of Dothan, on a peanut farm which is still in the King family. Her grandfather, Jim King, was recognized as the first commercial peanut farmer in the state. She received BA and MA degrees from the University of Montevallo, where she later taught composition, as she did at Jefferson State and Gadsden State.
Cassandra King resides in Beaufort, South Carolina, where she is honorary chair of the Pat Conroy Literary Center.
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