Kate Mosse
Author of Labyrinth
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Not to be confused with the model Kate Moss.
Series
Works by Kate Mosse
Shakespeare's sister: Virginia Woolf October 20 & 26 1928 (Great speeches of the 20th century) (2007) — Foreword — 3 copies
The Kate Mosse Collection - 3 books 2 copies
100 Great Plays For Women 1 copy
Associated Works
The Book Lovers' Appreciation Society: Breast Cancer Care Short Story Collection (2009) — Contributor — 91 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Mosse, Kate
- Legal name
- Mosse, Katharine Louise
- Birthdate
- 1961-10-20
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK
- Places of residence
- West Sussex, England, UK
- Education
- University of Oxford (BA|1984 - New College)
- Occupations
- novelist
broadcaster - Relationships
- Mosse, Greg (husband)
- Organizations
- Orange Prize for Fiction
- Awards and honors
- European Woman of Achievement (2007)
Officer, Order of the British Empire (2013) - Short biography
- Katharine Louise Mosse OBE (born 20 October 1961) is an English novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel Labyrinth, which has been translated into more than 37 languages.
Mosse was born in Chichester, and raised in Fishbourne, West Sussex, the eldest of three sisters born to a solicitor. Their aunt was involved in the campaign for the ordination of women and her grandfather was a vicar. She was educated at Chichester High School For Girls and New College, Oxford and graduated in 1984 with a BA (Hons) in English. After leaving university, she spent seven years working in publishing in London for Hodder & Stoughton, then Century, and finally as an editorial director at Hutchinson, part of the Random House Group. She was a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Women in Publishing.
She left publishing in 1992, for a writing career beginning with the non-fiction, Becoming a Mother. - Disambiguation notice
- Not to be confused with the model Kate Moss.
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Kate Mosse talks about Historical Fiction in Historical Fiction (December 2014)
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Statistics
- Works
- 24
- Also by
- 10
- Members
- 13,823
- Popularity
- #1,674
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 516
- ISBNs
- 380
- Languages
- 22
- Favorited
- 18
- About
- 1
- Touchstones
- 461