Katharine Noel

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  Katharine Noel's award winning "Halfway House" is about the Voorster family's reaction to their Ivy League-bound daughter's sudden battle with bipolar disorder.The book was recognized as a 2006 New York Times Editors' Choice.Noel earned the Ken/NAMI award and Kate Chopin award, along with being recognized by the Coalition of Behavioral Health Agencies.
  
  Noel, currently a professor at Stanford University, had previously worked at Gould Farm, a program for adults with mental illnesses.

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  Katharine Noel's novel Halfway House was a New York Times Editor's Choice and winner of the 2006 Kate Chopin Award, a Ken Book Award, and a Rona Jaffe award.Chapters have been anthologized in Best New American Voices and Outside Rules.She teaches at Stanford University, where she held Stegner and Capote fellowships.

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  Katharine Noel's award winning "Halfway House" is about the Voorster family's reaction to their Ivy League-bound daughter's sudden battle with bipolar disorder. The book was recognized as a 2006 New York Times Editors' Choice. Noel earned the Ken/NAMI award and Kate Chopin award, along with being recognized by the Coalition of Behavioral Health Agencies.
  
  Noel, currently a professor at Stanford University, had previously worked at Gould Farm, a program for adults with mental illnesses.

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  Katharine Noel reads the first chapter of her novel Halfway House, describing the day that Angie Voorster -- diligent student, all-star swimmer, and Ivy League-bound high school senior -- dove to the bottom of a swimming pool and stayed there, throwing her close-knit family into turmoil. (Running Time: 23:15)
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  About the Author: Katharine Noel
  
  Katharine Noel teaches at Stanford University, where she held Wallace Stegner and Truman Capote fellowships in 2000-2002.Prior to teaching at Stanford, she worked for two years at Gould Farm, a program in the Berkshire Mountains for adults with mental illnesses, and for four years at an Oakland shelter for homeless women and children.Her novel Halfway House (chapters of which have been anthologized in Best New American Voices and Outside Rules) came out in March 2006 was a New York Times Editor's Choice.

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  Katharine Noel is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Truman Capote Fellow, and Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University.Her work has appeared in The Best New American Voices 2003 and other anthologies, and has won awards from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Henfield-Transatl antic Foundation, and elsewhere.Her first novel, Halfway House will be published by Grove/Atlantic in March 2006.

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  ISBN 0749937033 (978-074-993703-4)
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  The debut by much-lauded newcomer Katharine Noel is a novel of complexity and power about the impact of a teenage girl's mental illness on her family.One day, Angie Voorster-diligent student, all-star swimmer, and Ivy League-bound high school senior-dives to the bottom of a pool and stays there.In that moment, everything the Voorster family believes they know about one another changes.Katharine Noel's extraordinary debut illuminates the fault lines in one family's relationships, as well as the complex emotional ties that bind them together.Halfway House is the story of Angie's psychotic break and her family's subsequent turmoil.Angie is a charismatic young woman-brilliant, witty, and passionate-until she swings to manic highs or dangerous lows.Each of her family members responds differently to the ongoing crisis: Her father Pieter, a Dutch-born professional cellist, retreats further into his music; her mother begins a destabilizing affair with a younger man; her younger brother, Luke, first distances himself as much as possible from his sister, then later drops out of college to be closer to her.And Luke's college girlfriend Wendy, who comes from a farming tow
  
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  Katherine Noel is a lecturer at Stanford University.She currently lives in San Francisco.

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  The debut by much-lauded newcomer Katharine Noel is a novel of complexity and power about the impact of a teenaged girl's mental illness on her family.
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  Katharine Noel's extraordinary debut illuminates the fault lines in one family's relationships, as well as the complex emotional ties that bind them together.
  
  Set in a small town in New Hampshire, Halfway House is the story of Angie's psychotic break and her family's subsequent turmoil.
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  "With these characters, Katharine Noel brings us a whole world, carved in sharp relief, as it moves in and out of madness.A brilliant novel.
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  "In Katharine Noel's stunning debut novel, family life is revealed - laid open - in all its love and warmth and, yes, its darkness, too.
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  "Can this really be Katharine Noel's first book?Halfway House is written with such fearless grace, such originality of vision, it reads like the work of a master.Noel has an uncanny ability to render the complicated relationships between brothers and sisters, parents and children, husbands and wives.
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  "In her rich ambitious novel, Halfway House, Katherine Noel gives us not just a handful of vignettes, not a few slices of time and glimpses of character, but a whole world: she explores years of upheaval and tenderness, layers of anguish, uncertainty, and deep communion with acute insight and agile pacing.Her depiction of the brother-sister relationship is flawless in its harrowingly accurate range of feeling and experience.With her portrait of Angie, Noel ventures far beneath the surface of mental illness and finds all the life and humor and humanity that is waiting below."
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  Katharine Noel is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, where she formerly held a Stegner Fellowship.Previously, Noel lived and worked for two years on a farm with a group of adults with mental illnesses.She currently lives in San Francisco, where she is at work on her second novel.

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  Katharine Noel '92 was one of only six writers nationwide selected for a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award.A Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, Noel previously held a Stegner Fellowship there.A chapter from her novel-in-progress, Halfway House, was selected to appear in Best New American Voices 2003.She received a master's degree in fine arts from the University of Arizona.

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  SMC Fall Reading Series Kicks Off with Katharine Noel LAMORINDA WEEKLY | Home
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  Saint Mary's College (SMC) will launch their Fall Creative Writing Reading Series on the evening of September 3rd with novelist Katharine Noel. Her debut novel, The Halfway House, was a New York Times Editor's Choice and received several awards for its contribution to fiction writing and to a better understanding of mental illness. The Halfway House follows the path of a young woman who experiences a psychotic break and is eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder as she and her family struggle to deal with her mental illness. "It really is a book about the whole family and how a crisis manifests," explains Noel. "The family already had cracks, and this particular pressure worked on those weaknesses. That's what make sit interesting to me." Noel spent two years working at a residential psychiatric treatment program that was set on a farm in the Berkshire Mountains. "I really fell in love with the Farm and with work that they were doing," states Noel. "The Farm was the place where I began thinking about the identity issues raised with mental illness," she adds. Although she considered a career in public health, writing became her main focus, and she ultimately incorporated her experiences into her art. Noel, who is a regular lecturer in the English Department at Stanford, will also serve as a writer-in-residence throughout the Fall at SMC where she will teach the graduate fiction workshop.
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  September 3 Katharine Noel (fiction) September 10 Tom Pickard (poetry) September 24 Dan White (nonfiction) October 1 Ashley Capps (poetry) October 8 Peter Orner (fiction) November 12 Brenda Miller (nonfiction)
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  September 3 Katharine Noel (fiction)

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