Kathleen Finneran, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kathleen Finneran

American memoirist

Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1957

Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Profession: writer, biographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Kathleen Finneran (born December 3, 1957 in St.
Louis, Missouri), is an American author.
She wrote the book-length family memoir The Tender Land (Houghton-Mifflin, 2000).
Finneran received a Whiting Award in 2001 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003.She teaches at Washington University and was a guest professor at the University of Missouri-St.
Louis, where she led workshops on memoir and personal essay. On May 17, 2010, Kathleen Finneran awarded Christopher Bachmann and Tony Minnick from St.
Louis University High School, an award for exemplary and outstanding literary work.