Kate Quinn is the bestselling author of historical fiction, including such titles as The Alice Network, The Rose Code, The Huntress, and The Briar Club. She has also co-written several books including The Phoenix Crown with Janie Chang and a series of collaborative books with several authors set in acient Greece (A Song of War), Rome (Day of Fire), and Britain (A Year of Ravens) and during the French Revolution (Ribbons of Scarlet).
Born in California, Kate attended Boston University, where she earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Classical Voice. While studying at the university, she would write books on the side. She wrote the novel The Mistress of Rome in her freshman year and a short time later it was published. She has been a full-time novelist ever since.
Kate first began writing at age seven and has always had a passion for history. Kate says on her website, “I’ve loved history all my life…Too often we grow up thinking history is boring, dull, nothing but flat lists of dates and places. In my books I hope to show the life, the laughter, and the humanity that runs through our common past.” But she isn’t drawn to any particular time period. She told Writers Digest,. “I’m less interested in specific historical eras than I am interested in finding extraordinary women who did extraordinary things, regardless of what time period they lived in or what war or what tremendous crucible they went through. If I can find those women in any historical era—and you always can because they existed, because they were there—I think I will have something to write about.”
Kate and her husband live in San Diego with three rescue dogs.