Author Angie Klink Bio
Angie Lipp Klink is the author of sixteen books. She is an independent scholar, historian, advertising copywriter, and a scriptwriter.
Klink writes biographies, histories, memoirs, documentaries, children’s books, essays, profiles, and advertising copy.
Two of Klink's works were published in 2025—Purdue's Female Founders: The Untold History of Trailblazing Women Faculty and Birck Builds The Future: Celebrating Twenty Years at Purdue University, 2005-2025.
Klink's book Forging Ahead: How Five Generations of Small-Town Values Collided with Big Ambitions to Spark One of America's Fastest-Growing Companies was published by Koehler Books in December 2024. The book is about the evolution of Nix Industrial from a blacksmith shop to a Midwest metal fabrication powerhouse in tiny Poseyville, Indiana. New York Times bestselling author Julia Scheeres said it is "a delightfully written book about the little business that could."
Klink's books WBAA: 100 Years as the Voice of Purdue and Pledge and Promise: Celebrating the Bond and Heritage of Fraternity, Sorority and Cooperative Life at Purdue University were published in 2022.
More of her books published by Purdue University Press are: The Deans’ Bible: Five Purdue Women and Their Quest for Equality; Kirby’s Way: How Kirby and Caroline Risk Built Their Company on Kitchen-Table Values, and the 2011 book Divided Paths, Common Ground: The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science into the Home. The latter is about the 1926 founding of the School of Home Economics and the beginning of Cooperative Extension at Purdue.
Klink has written for Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History magazine, Ms Magazine, and the American Writers' Museum. Two essays by Klink appear in Undeniably Indiana, an Indiana Bicentennial book published by Indiana University Press, August 2016. Klink is published in five titles for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
Klink's popular lift-the-flap children's board book Purdue Pete Finds His Hammer is in it's fourth printing, first released in 2004. Her children's Book I Found U about Indiana University is equally as popular.
She was the scriptwriter for two documentaries narrated by actor Peter Coyote—Eternal Flame, a film about five-time number one songwriter Tom Kelly and the public education documentary Rise Above the Mark, named an Official Selection in the 2014 Gutsy Gals Film Award competition.
Deborah Hutchison, President and Founder of Gutsy Gals Inspire Me said, “Your film has helped to support our mission of promoting talented women writers and directors of film, and putting women’s creative vision front-and-center in today’s contemporary media.”
Klink has written about author, poet, and artist Evaleen Stein (1863-1923) and procured a 2024 Indiana Historical Bureau marker in Lafayette, Indiana, honoring Stein.
She has received 62 American Advertising Federation ADDY Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement honor, and an honorable mention in the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Competition.
She is a recipient of the Excellence in Historic Preservation Medal from the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, their most prestigious award honoring dedication to the research and writing of books. Klink is a 2023 recipient of the YWCA Greater Lafayette Salute to Women “Woman of Distinction” Award.
Klink is a lifetime member of the Purdue University President's Council, a lifetime member of the Purdue Alumni Association, and a long-time member of the John Purdue Club. She is a past board member of YWCA of Greater Lafayette and the National Women’s History Alliance (NWHA). Klink holds a BA from the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University.
