Madeleine Kuderick

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Madeleine Kuderick

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Chicago, IL
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Kurt Vonnegut, e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes, J.D. Salinger

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September 2013


Madeleine Kuderick grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, a community with rich literary tradition, where she was editor-in-chief of the same high school newspaper that Ernest Hemingway wrote for as a teen. She studied journalism at Indiana University before transferring to the School of Hard Knocks where she earned plenty of bumps and bruises and eventually an MBA.

Today, Madeleine is published in anthologies and magazines and speaks at reading conferences, literature festivals, and schools across the country. KISS OF BROKEN GLASS is her debut novel, a Florida Book Awards gold medal winner, and a YALSA 2015 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.



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“I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin.”
Madeleine Kuderick, Kiss of Broken Glass

“Silent sobbing. No one sees.
Weeping like the willow trees.
Feel my heart about to pop.
Need to make the aching stop.
See moon's shimmer softly pass.
On the shards of broken glass.”
Madeleine Kuderick, Kiss of Broken Glass

“Vampire Diaries instead of Supernatural?
(Bad choice.)”
Madeleine Kuderick, Kiss of Broken Glass

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“I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin.”
Madeleine Kuderick, Kiss of Broken Glass

“But there is one cool thing
about having a weirdo mother.
She works so hard at remembering
where she left herself
she doesn’t have time
to work on me.”
Linda Vigen Phillips, Crazy

“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain… Or so says the legend.”
Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

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