Marlo C. Kirkpatrick (born 1965) is an American author and photographer.

Biography

Kirkpatrick has a

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degree in journalism and English from the

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. She became a freelance photographer in 1995, and since then received 175 of regional and national awards. She is married to Stephen Kirkpatrick who is also a photographer. Currently she have two books in print; ''Lost in the Amazon: The True Story of Five Men and their Desperate Battle for Survival'' and ''Mississippi Off the Beaten Path'' which have been reprinted seven times. She also co-authored five books with her husband including a children's book called ''Among the Animals''.

Personal life

She met her love, Stephen, in

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and fell in love with him. Later on she returned to

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in 1998 and had a

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with him there. Since that time they have visited the

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, but also have been everywhere in

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and

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and even in the

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References

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