![]() ![]() experimented with such techniques in her first novel, The Art of Falling. The book’s lead character, Penny, is pushed to the edge of despair and this helped Craft forgive her husband in some way and helped to bring the events of 1997 into a cathartic experience for Craft. Janice Gable Bashman In The Far End of Happy, Kathryn Craft novelizes her. The process took eight years and the outcome was a novel called “The Art of Falling”. In the year 2000, Craft started writing fiction and her first novel took on the subject of eating disorders among the female dance community. The events had changed her and she understood that her life would never be the same. She initially wanted to write a memoir of her life, but her focus continually came back to her husband’s standoff with the police. On October 20, 1997, Craft’s husband had a 12-hour standoff with the police that ended up with his suicide. Craft also served in the various leadership capacities for the Women’s Fiction Writer’s Association, the Philadelphia Writer’s Conference, and the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group. in Health and Physical Education with a dance concentration in 1980. in Biological Sciences Education in 1978. She later attended Miami University and graduated with a B.S. The Art of Falling expresses the beauty of movement, the stasis of despair, and the unlimited possibilities that come with a new beginning. Kathryn Graham was born on September 9, 1956, in Syracuse, New York and graduated from Dulaney High School in 1974. Kathryn Crafts lyrical debut novel is a masterful portrayal of a young woman trying to come to terms with her body and the artistic world that has repeatedly rejected her. ![]()
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