Kendare Blake

KENDARE BLAKE grew up in the small city of Cambridge, Minnesota. She is a graduate of Ithaca College, in Ithaca, New York and received a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Middlesex University in London, England. She loves to travel, is an advocate for animals, and cheats a lot when she plays Final Fantasy. Adopted from South Korea at the age of seven months, she arrived with the following instruction: "Feed her chocolate." Though not medically advisable, she and her parents are eternally grateful for this advice. Kendare is the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of several novels including Anna Dressed In Blood, Antigoddess and Three Dark Crowns, and in Fall 2021, All These Bodies.

Midwestern Murders in the 1950s: Five Films Inspired by Starkweather/Fugate & Hickock/Smith

By Kendare Blake

September 17, 2021

In December 1957 and January 1958, nineteen-year-old Charlie Starkweather embarked on a killing spree through Nebraska and Wyoming. Most of the murders took place in just over a week, an eight-day rampage of shootings and stabbings that confounded authorities and terrorized the general public. With his even younger girlfriend in tow, Charlie killed eleven people,…