Claim: Kate Lehrer, who was born on  December 17, 1939,  is a novelist, a book reviewer, and a writer, one of her work is "Out of Eden,"  which is about two women that turn away from their lives of bourgeois comfort in Paris for a simpler life on the prairies of Kansas.
Evidence: Kate Lehrer (born Kate Tom Staples; December 17, 1939) is an American writer, novelist and book reviewer from Washington, D.C., and a panelist on the Diane Rehm Book Club on National Public Radio. 
Out of Eden, which won the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Novel, was published in 1996.