N. M. Kelby

N. M. Kelby is author of the new novel, White Truffles in Winter, which recounts the life and loves of the extraordinary French chef who revolutionized French cuisine and, indeed, changed the the dining habits of Western civilization and raised cooking to the status of culinary art. The book is being launched concurrent with Words & Music, 2011. She also is author of Whale Season (Random House/Shaye Areheart imprint), In the Company of Angels (Theia/Hyperion, 2001), and Theater of the Stars (Theia/Hyperion, 2003). Before turning her hand to fiction, Ncole spent more than 20 years as a print and television journalist She is the recipient of a Bush Artist Fellowship in Literature, the Heekin Group Foundation’s James Fellowship for the Novel, both a Florida and Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship in fiction, two Jerome Travel Study Grants, and a Jewish Arts Endowment Fellowship, and has several times been a finalist in the William Faulkner – William Widsom Creative Writing Competition.