Background
Mrs. DeGrave was born on October 20, 1950, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States. She was a daughter of Roland Albert and Luella May (Fonder) DeGrave.
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Set in Kansas in the year 2039, this science fiction novel places ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances when an earthquake that has slowed down time forces two protagonists to confront their pasts to fix their broken lives in the present. Using a combination of natural resources, ancient rituals, and futuristic technology, one character revises his past decisions to alter his present self. This narrative shows how individual choices can alter wider reality, and how community and local economy can offer an alternative to the economic and environmental dystopia the characters find themselves in.
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Mrs. DeGrave was born on October 20, 1950, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States. She was a daughter of Roland Albert and Luella May (Fonder) DeGrave.
In 1973 Kathleen DeGrave received his Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) from University Wisconsin, Green Bay. In 1977 she obtained Master of Arts from University Arkansas, Fayetteville. Mrs. DeGrave earned her Doctor of Philosophy degree from University Wisconsin, Madison, 1989.
Mrs. DeGrave worked as a claims representative at Social Secretary Administration, Rice Lake, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1978-1982. She was a lecturer at University of Wisconsin, Menasha, during the period of 1983-1984. From 1983 to 1984 Kathleen DeGrave served as a lecturer at St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin.
Between 1984 and 1986 Mrs. DeGrave was appointed teaching assistant at University of Wisconsin, Madison, during 1987-1989 a lecturer at Pittsburg (Kansas) State University. She held the posta of an assistant Professor of English, director WAC program, Pittsburg (Kansas) State University, 1989-1994. Since 1994 she was an associate professor at Pittsburg (Kansas) State University. In 1992 Mrs. DeGrave acted as a consultant at West Texas State University, Canyon.
She was a contributor of short stories to Valley Women’s Voice and Potato Eyes and author of several books.
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Quotations:
Kathleen De Grave told CA: "One of the main things I try to do in my writing is get into the minds of different characters. When I write a novel, I have to be able to think like each of the people I create — take on their language, their view of the world. I have to empathize with them, become them for a moment. That makes my life richer, and if I do it well, it gives a similar experience to the reader. For a moment, the reader has to empathize, too. John Keats called it negative capability — the ability to negate one’s own Personality long enough to realize someone else’s."
"I think of writing in part as teaching. First I teach myself as the writing happens. If it turns out right, then the same writing teaches others."
"I enjoy writing fiction for the play of language. The nuances tumble around me as I write, opening up possibilities of meaning I’d only glimpsed before. Of course, the most frustrating thing is language that balks. And it does that a lot. But the moments when everything falls right, when what I write is a surprise, make up for everything else."
"What saves me as a writer is the stories I need to tell. They can come from anywhere — a phrase someone uses, a look on someone’s face. Because no matter how wonderful other writers are, they haven’t told that story. And then the work begins — trying to get the language right."
Kathleen DeGrave married Earl Wayne Lee (a librarian and author) on March 10, 1978. They have three children: Nathan DeLee, Cambria DeLee, Erin DeLee.
