Kitty Burns Florey


Kitty Burns Florey is the author of eleven novels and two nonfiction books, including . She is also the author of a genealogical memoir, The Quest for Inez: Two Ways to Find a Grandmother, a mix of fact and fiction. In addition to writing, she works as a freelance copy editor.

Biography

An only child born and raised in Syracuse, New York, Florey attended St. John the Baptist Academy from 1st to 12th grades; this parochial school experience would later inform some of her nonfiction writing. She has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Boston University as well as a master's degree from Syracuse University, also in English Literature. She has lived in Syracuse, Boston, New Haven, and Brooklyn. In 1971, she had her daughter, Katherine Florey.
Her most recent nonfiction book, , is an exploration of the history of handwriting and a meditation on its modern function in the digital age. It was published by Melville House Publishing in January, 2009 and was issued as a paperback in September 2013. Her most recent work of fiction is Amity Street, a historical novel set in 1892 in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she now lives.