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Katherine Kurtz was born in Coral Gables, Florida,
on October 18th, during a hurricane, and likes to think this was an auspicious introduction to the world. She read honours
humanities at the University of Miami, from which she received a B.S. in chemistry, and attended medical school for a year
before deciding she would rather write about medicine than practice it. She completed an M.A. in medieval English history
at UCLA while writing her first two novels and working as an instructional designer for the Los Angeles Police Academy, and
continued her police work for the next ten years. She is also a professionally trained hypnotist, a student of comparative
religion, a passable authority on heraldry and chivalry (she belongs to several modern-day chivalric orders, and her husband
has just been appointed a state herald for Ireland), a virtuoso at counted cross-stitch (in her copious spare time), and an
avowed cat person.
Besides the Deryni, Camber, King Kelson, and Heirs of
Saint Camber Trilogies (and a collection of short stories set in the Deryni universe, plus a book on Deryni
magic), she has written a juvenile science fiction novel, Legacy of Lehr: a World War II thriller, Lammas Night,
dealing with magic worked in the summer of 1940 to keep Hitler from invading England; and an alternate history of the American
War for Independence called Two Crowns For America. A new Deryni novel is nearing completion (King Kelson's
Bride), with at least two more trilogies projected for the future.
Katherine Kurtz is one of the "founding" authors of trade paperback
fantasy books, as well as created her own sub-genre in fantasy. Always precocious (able to recite the entire poem "Little
Orphan Annie" at the age of TWO!). During her MA studies, she completed the second two novels in the first Deryni trilogy.
She is one of the most consistent fantasy authors published, with few, if any, contradictions from one book to another. Katherine
currently lives in Holybrook Hall, a castle in Ireland, with her husband, Scott MacMillan five cats, two "silly-looking" dogs,
and at least two resident ghosts. She currently has several writing projects, including a re-release of the first trilogy
that started it all.
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