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I'm the award-winning writer of more than two-dozen books in multiple genres—memoir, middle grade and young adult fiction, picture books, history, corporate fable, and books on the making of memoir. I'm also an award-winning teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founder of Juncture Workshops, and an essayist and critic with work appearing in The New York Times, Life magazine, Ninth Letter, Catapult, The Millions, The Rumpus, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and elsewhere. Please visit me at junctureworkshops.com or bethkephartbooks.com.
2014
A Philadelphia Affair
2015
2017
A Story Inspired by Virginia Woolf's Famous Essay
2022
2016
2010
Reflections on Endings, Beginnings, and the Unearthing of Self
2005
2012
2020
One Child's Courage
1998
2007
The Life and Times of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River
2007
2002
2015
A memoir writing workbook
2017
What William Morris Made
2022
The Genius of Ursula Nordstrom
2023
2013
2011
A Memoir of the Things That Matter
2000
The Master Memoir Class
2021
2010
2008
2018
On the Writing of Memoir
2013
A Philadelphia Story
2025
2009
Henriette Wyeth's World
2021
2020
A Memoir in Essays
2021
Nurturing the Imagination in a Fast-Forward World
2004
2014