Authors Families
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Kate O'Hearn
Kate O'Hearn was raised in the heart of New York City. As a child walking down 5th Avenue, she would envision herself soaring among the city's canyons on the back of a wild dragon. While in Florida, looking over the sea, she could imagine living amongst the whales and beaching in the heavy swe...
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Kate Thompson
Kate Thompson is one of the most exciting authors writing for young people today for she is a born storyteller, highly original and thought provoking in her ideas. She has travelled widely in the USA and India and studied law in London. After living in County Clare, she moved to Kinvara in Cou...
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Katharine Holabird
Katharine Holabird grew up in Chicago at a time when 'TV hadn't yet become a fixture in every home, and we created our own imaginative world'. The second of four daughters, she loved to dress up and dance with her sisters, pretending to be beautiful ballerinas. Annual invitations to the ballet...
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Katherine Langrish
Katherine grew up in the Yorkshire Dales and has been writing stories for as long as she can remember. She studied English at university and had a variety of jobs, such as lab assistant, riding instructor, and public information officer at Lloyd's Register of Ships in London, where she met a l...
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Katherine Roberts
Author Katherine Roberts was born in the south west of England and spent her childhood roaming the beaches of Devon and Cornwall. She studies at the University of Bath, where she obtained a first class degree in Mathematics. The book that inspired her to start writing fantasy fiction wa...
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Kathryn James
Kathryn James always wanted to be an author, but had plenty of jobs and raised a family before actually becoming one. Some wonderful jobs, like scuba-diving in Malta, and some not so wonderful, like buttering bread in a sandwich shop. Working with gypsy and traveller children and teenagers was...
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Katy Cannon
Katy Cannon was born in the United Arab Emirates, grew up in North Wales, and now lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and daughter Holly. She did an English Literature degree at Lancaster University, but soon found out that writing her own stories was much more fun than analyzing ot...
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Kaye Umansky
Born an only child in Plymouth in 1946, Kaye Umansky grew up as the daughter of two teachers.Once Kaye left school, she became a teacher and taught in primary schools for a number of years. She enjoyed teaching the more creative subjects, like Drama and English, and reading to the...
