High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kristen Iversen was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and grew up in Colorado. She is the author of the bestselling biography Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth, which won the Colorado Book Award for Biography and the Barbara Sudler Award for Nonfiction. It formed the basis for the A&E Biography, Molly Brown: An American Legend. She is also the author of Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction.