Kate Summerscale
Kate Summerscale (born 1965) is an award-winning English writer and journalist.
She is the author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House[1] which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2008, and the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, about Joe Carstairs, 'fastest woman on water', which won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1998 and was shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread Awards for biography.
She formerly worked for The Independent and from 1995 to 1996 she wrote and edited obituaries for The Daily Telegraph.[2] She is the former literary editor of The Daily Telegraph[3][4] Her articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.[5]
She has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize in 2001.
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[edit] Biography
She was brought up in Japan, England and Chile. After attending Bedales School (1978–1983), she took a double-first at Oxford University and an MA in Journalism from Stanford University.[6] She lives in London with her son.[7]
[edit] Awards and prizes
[edit] Winner
- 1998 - Somerset Maugham Award - The Queen of Whale Cay
- 2008 - Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction - The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House
- 2010 - Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature [8]
[edit] Shortlisted
- 1997 - Whitbread Award for biography - The Queen of Whale Cay
[edit] Bibliography
- The Queen of Whale Cay, Fourth Estate, August 1997
- The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House, Bloomsbury, April 2008
- Mrs Robinson's Disgrace (2012)
[edit] References
- ^ Kate Summerscale: the perfect crime story, The Daily Telegraph, Sarah Crompton, 21 July 2008
- ^ Harperperennial.co.uk
- ^ Kate Summerscale wins Samuel Johnson Prize
- ^ Q & A with Kate Summerscale
- ^ Kate Summserscale's articles at journalisted.com
- ^ Whalecay.net
- ^ Bloomsbury page on Kate Summerscale
- ^ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
[edit] External links
- Kate Summerscale's official website at www.mrwhicher.com
- Kate Summserscale's articles at journalisted.com
- 'The Prince of Sleuths', Kate Summerscale in The Guardian, April 5, 2008
- Q & A with Kate Summerscale
- Listen to an audio interview with Kate Summerscale from The Interview Online
- Watch The Suspicions of Mr Whicher being discussed on Newsnight Review
