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Kate Quinn

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Kate Quinn is an American writer, known for her works of historical fiction.

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Early life and education

Quinn was born and raised in Long Beach, California.[1][2] She graduated from Boston University with a BA (2004) and a master's degree (2006) in classical voice.[3][4]

Career

Quinn's novels often focus on women's unexpected roles in history[5][6] such as military snipers, spies, and code breakers. Her works have been set in several historical eras, including five novels that take place during the Roman Empire, two books about the Borgias in the Italian Renaissance, and most recently a series of novels set in the 1940s and 1950s, centering on the events during and after the Second World War. Her 2017 historical fiction novel, The Alice Network, was a New York Times[7] and USA Today bestseller.[8] Her 2019 follow-up (and eighth novel),[2] The Huntress, earned positive reviews in The Washington Post[9] and Kirkus Reviews, and was also a New York Times bestseller.[10][11] Her novels The Rose Code and The Diamond Eye were also New York Times bestsellers.[12][13]

She has also contributed to a series of historical novels that were collaboratively written with 5-6 other authors, in which each author wrote a separate chapter presenting a different character's voice, which together make up a single overlapping story. The first of these, A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii is in development for a limited series from Amazon studios.[14]

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Personal life

Quinn resides with her husband in Maryland.[15]

Bibliography

Novels

The Empress of Rome Series

  • Mistress of Rome (2010) ISBN 978-0425232477
  • Daughters of Rome (2011) ISBN 978-0425238974
  • Empress of the Seven Hills (2012) ISBN 978-0425242025
  • The Three Fates (2015) ASIN B00TXRB1J0
  • Lady of the Eternal City (2015) ISBN 978-0425259634

The Borgia Chronicles

Other novels

Collaboratively written novels

  • A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii (with Stephanie Dray, Sophie Perinot, Ben Kane and Vicky Alvear Shecter) (2014) ISBN 978-0990324577
  • A Year of Ravens: A Novel of Boudica's Rebellion (with Ruth Downie, Stephanie Dray, E Knight, Vicky Alvear Shecter, S. J. A. Turney and Russell Whitfield) (2015) ISBN 978-1517635411
  • A Song of War: A Novel of Troy (with Christian Cameron, Libbie Hawker, Vicky Alvear Shecter, S. J. A. Turney, Stephanie Thornton and Russell Whitfield) (2016) ISBN 978-1536931853
  • Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution's Women (with Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie, E Knight, Heather Webb and Sophie Perinot)(2019) ISBN 978-0062952196
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