Katherine Keenum

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A blog about how paintings, photographs, and prints have helped me visualize my fiction—both Where the Light Falls and works-in-progress—with a hope that they will stimulate other writers and readers, too.

A small sample of the images that inspired me.

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Selected Works

Fiction

Where the Light Falls

An American woman art student meets a Civil War veteran in Belle Époque Paris.

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