Katharine Gordon
Auteur de The Emerald Peacock
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) Katharine Gordon, published since 1978, author of the Peacock books, is not the same author as Katherine (different spelling) Gordon, born 1963. Please do not combine these two author names.
Séries
Œuvres de Katharine Gordon
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Gordon, Katharine
- Date de naissance
- 1916
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
India
Nairobi, Kenya
Khartoum, Sudan - Prix et distinctions
- Authors' Club First Novel Award (1981)
- Courte biographie
- Katharine Gordon was born on 1916 in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, but she grew up in India, and except for occasional trips to her mother-in-law's home in Kent or her own family in Scotland has spent her life in India, Africa and in Cyprus. She worked as Secretary to E. A. Army Wardens in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1950 to 1951; as Immigration Officer at the Immigration Department in Nairobi from 1954 to 1957; and as Consular Clerk at British Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, from 1964 to 1969. She married an English RAF pilot retired after World War II and flew as an airline captain, and it was while he was on long trips that she began to write. She wrote many manuscripts, some twenty in all, and finally submitted The Emerald Peacock, based on a true story, for publication in 1978, wich she won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, and in 1979 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award of Special Merit by the Romantic Novelists' Association
- Notice de désambigüisation
- Katharine Gordon, published since 1978, author of the Peacock books, is not the same author as Katherine (different spelling) Gordon, born 1963. Please do not combine these two author names.
Membres
Discussions
"Peacock Throne" maybe? Fiction, set in India, read in 1980s à Name that Book (Août 2015)
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Membres
- 99
- Popularité
- #191,538
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- ISBN
- 38
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 1