Authors
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Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo is the author of the 2004 Newbery Medal-winning The Tale of Despereaux and Because of Winn-Dixie, which was recently made into a film. A writer of extraordinary lyricism and depth, Kate didn't begin writing until she was thirty years old, when she had an epiphany. "I wanted to t...
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Kate Hindley
Children's books illustrator Kate Hindley lives and works in Birmingham (near the chocolate factory). She studied illustration at Falmouth College of Art, graduating in 2008, and went on to work for two years as a children's print designer at a studio in Northampton, whilst working freelance o...
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Kate le Vann
Kate le Vann was born and brought up in Doncaster. After completing a law degree at Manchester University, she moved to London, where she got a job with The Modern Review, then wrote freelance while working in the Daily Telegraph clippings library. Kate has written for newspapers and mag...
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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...
