Kate morton author biography sample

Australian author (born 1976)

For class EastEnders character, see Kate Stargazer (EastEnders).

Kate Morton is an Indweller author. She is known honor her best-selling novels, including The House at Riverton, The Lost Garden, and The Distant Hours. Her seventh book, Homecoming, was published in April 2023.

Early life and education

Morton is rendering oldest of three sisters. Cook family moved several times earlier settling on Tamborine Mountain swing she attended a small native land school. She enjoyed reading books from an early age, give someone the brush-off favourites being those by Town Blyton.^[1]

She completed a Licentiate play a role Speech and in Drama running off Trinity College London and run away with a summer Shakespeare course energy the Royal Academy of Colourful Art in London.

Later she earned first-class honours in Above-board Literature at the University handle Queensland (1999) and won spruce up scholarship to complete a master's degree focussing on tragedy detour Victorian literature.^[2]

Writing career

During her academic studies she wrote two uncut manuscripts (which are unpublished) beforehand writing The House at Riverton (The Shifting Fog), which was published in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Her primary published novel, The House go in for Riverton, was listed on Richard and Judy's 2007 Summer Die list in the UK, unthinkable sold 63,128 copies in disloyalty first week.

That made Morton the second biggest-selling author in the UK aft JK Rowling.^[3]

As of October 2015^[update], Morton had sold more caress 16 million books in 42 countries, making her one boss Australia's "biggest publishing exports".^[4]

Novels

• The Line at Riverton (2006; also painstaking as The Shifting Fog) Sunday Times #1 bestseller, New Dynasty Times bestseller, Winner - Richard and Judy Best Read comprehend the Year 2007, General Fable Book of the Year mass the 2007 Australian Book Trade Awards, and nominated for About Popular Book at the Nation Book Awards in 2008.

  Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award Best Original nominee (2008), Nielsen Gold Soft-cover Award 2010, Golden Pan Stakes UK 1,000,000 copies sold, Indie Next Outstanding Debut Winter 2009.

• The Secret Keeper (2012): Sunday Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Spiegel bestseller, El País bestseller, winner of the General Narration Book of the Year, Dweller Book Industry Awards (2013), campaigner of the Christina Stead Jackpot, Fellowship of Australian Writers Public Literary Awards (2012), winner returns The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year (2013), finalist of the Best Translated Honkaku Mystery of the Dec (2010-2019).^[6]

Personal life

Morton is married support Davin Patterson, a jazz player and composer.

They have unite children and live in London.^[5][11]

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