Christina Baker Kline is the author of the best-selling novel, Orphan Train. Kline was born in Cambridge, England. As a child, she traveled back and forth from England to southern America, before finally settling down in Maine. She went to Yale, then back to Cambridge for her master's degree in literature, and then to UVA for an MFA in fiction. She had thought of herself as a writer since she was twelve and published her first novel in her mid-twenties. Her favorite author is Flaubert, who wrote one of her favorite novels, Madame Bovary. She admits that she has never actually read Moby Dick, although she has pretended to.