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Kathy Lee Sumner

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Pensacola, The United States

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After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Auburn University, Kathy Lee Sumner wrote and freelanced for several publications along Florida's gulf coast, from her hometown of Pensacola to Naples where she resided from 1993 to 2018.

While living in Naples, in 2003, she began writing novels as a hobby while raising her two children and working on her Florida teaching certification. In 2006, her father was diagnosed with lung cancer. This motivated Sumner to finish one of the manuscripts she had been creating, chapters of which she would send him to read as entertainment while he was ill to help get his mind off of the cancer. Also a native Floridian, he would add character traits and suggest setting locations--several are use ...more

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Average rating: 4.19 · 653 ratings · 39 reviews · 1 distinct work • Similar authors

Captiva Island - A Novel

4.19 avg rating — 653 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions

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