![]() To gain a publisher for her work, now called Through a Glass Darkly, Koen sent the manuscript to Jean Naggar, whose name she found in Writer's Digest. The book centered on teenage noblewoman Barbara Alderley and her trials and travails as she navigates English and French society. To help pass the dull hours at home, Koen began writing a historical fiction novel on her favorite time period, the eighteenth-century. In 2011 she attended the annual conference of the Historical Novel Society alongside Diana Gabaldon and Margaret George, among others. She decided to leave in order to focus on her husband Edward Koen and her two children. ![]() Koen became the first managing editor of Houston Home & Garden, working in that capacity for five years. In 1970, she majored in English and graduated from North Texas State University. ![]() Karleen Koen ( née Smith) is an American novelist perhaps best known for her 1986 debut historical fiction novel, Through a Glass Darkly. Seventeenth and eighteenth century England and France ![]()
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