Kate Mosse

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kate Mosse
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Oct 20, 1961(1961-10-20)
Age	63
Birthplace	Chichester
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Libra

Kate Mosse Biography

Kate Mosse is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on October 20, 1961 in Chichester, England, United Kingdom. Mosse has contributed several stories and essays to anthologies and collections for example Modern Delight (a book inspired by J. B. Priestley’s 1948 novel The Delight) released in the UK by Waterstone’s to raise funds to Dyslexia Action as well as The London Library; Little Black Dress (edited by Susie Maguire); Midsummer Nights (edited by Jeanette Winterson) A collection of essays to mark the 75th anniversary of the Glyndebourne Opera House located in East Sussex; The Best Little Book Club in Town and The Coffee Shop Book Club to raise money for the Breast Cancer Care and Why Willows Weep (edited by Tracy Chevalier) in aid of the Woodland Trust (2011), Write (Guardian Books), Virago at 40 (edited by Lennie Goodings) and The Fifty Shades of Feminism (edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach), Writing Historical Fiction (edited by Celia Brayfield and Duncan Sprott) and Anthology of World War I Literature for Children (edited by Michael Morpurgo) in 2014 in support of the Royal British Legion and SSAFA.

Her departure from publishing came in 1992 to pursue her writing career, which began with non-fiction. Becoming a Mom.

In 1996 Mosse co-founded the annual Women’s Prize for Fiction (WPF) — formerly the Orange Prize, and from 2014, the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction — of which she is also the honorary director and chair of the WPF Board. The prize celebrates international fiction throughout the world written by women, and is anonymously endowed. Previous winners include Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, Small Island by Andrea Levy and We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.

Mosse has served on a number of arts boards, including South East Arts, the South West Sussex Arts Group and Arts & Business. She was a governor of Chichester High School For Girls from 1998 to 2002. She is on the Board of the National Theatre in London and on the Executive Committee of Women of the World, as well as being a Patron of the Chichester-based Consort of Twelve and The Fishbourne Centre. She is one of the authors leading the campaign against the closure of the UK library service.

In 1989 they and their husband purchased an unassuming house located in Carcassonne located in the Languedoc region in southwest France which was the source of inspiration for her bestseller trilogy of historical novels. She returned to her hometown in Chichester in 1998, when she was the first woman to be named executive director of the Chichester Festival Theatre.

Kate Mosse Net Worth

Kate Mosse is one of the richest Writer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kate Mosse 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Katharine Louise Mosse OBE (born 20 October, 1961) is an English novelist, nonfiction and short story author and broadcaster. She is most famous for her novel Labyrinth that was translated into over 37 languages.

Mosse Was born in Chichester and was she was raised at Fishbourne, West Sussex, the oldest of three sisters born to an attorney. Their aunt was a part of the campaign to ordination for women, and her grandfather was vicar. She attended Chichester High School For Girls as well as New College, Oxford and graduated in 1984 with the degree of BA (Hons) in English. Following her departure from the university, she worked for seven years within publishing London at Hodder & Stoughton, then Century and, finally, as the editorial director for Hutchinson which is which is part of the Random House Group. She was an active part of both the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) as well as Women in Publishing.

Although best known for her adventure and ghost fiction, inspired by real history, Mosse’s first two works were non-fiction. Becoming A Mother (in its seventh edition) was published by Virago in 1993, followed in 1995 by The House: Behind the Scenes at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, published by BBC Books to accompany the BBC 2 The House. She then wrote two contemporary novels. Eskimo Kissing, about a young, adopted woman searching for her background, was well received when it was published in 1996. This was followed in 1998 by the biotech thriller, Crucifix Lane.

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Her first play, Syrinx, was part of the SkyArts Theatre Live project, devised by Sandi Toksvig. First performed in July 2009, it won a broadcasting press publicity award that same year. Mosse’s second play Endpapers was part of the Bush Theatre’s 2011 project Sixty-Six Books. Her monologue was inspired by the Book of Revelation, the final book in the Bible.

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Kate Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Kate Mosse celebrates birthday on October 20 of every year.

In 2012, she published an anniversary book to celebrate 50 years of the Chichester Festival Theatre. Chichester Festival Theatre at Fifty is published by the crowd-funding publishing company Unbound.

What order should I read Kate Mosse?

• Labyrinth. by Kate Mosse. Book one in the Languedoc trilogy. …
• Sepulchre. by Kate Mosse. Book two in the Languedoc trilogy. …
• Citadel. by Kate Mosse. …
• The Taxidermist’s Daughter. by Kate Mosse. …
• The Winter Ghosts. by Kate Mosse. …
• An Extra Pair of Hands. by Kate Mosse.

Is the City of Tears a sequel?

This is the second book in the Burning Chambers series and continues the epic adventure of Minuo Reydon-Joubert and Piet Reydon, with a lens on the Catholic and Huguenot conflicts in the sixteenth century.

Is Kate Mosse a good writer?

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Is there a third book in The Burning Chambers series?

I’m hard at work on Book III, which will be publishing in 2023. Look out for our cover reveal early in the Spring. In February, we’re reissuing The Languedoc Trilogy – Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel – in fantastic new editions, following on from my Gothic thrillers and ghost stories reissued in Autumn 2021.

Do you need to read The Burning Chambers before the city of tears?

The City of Tears opens, as did its predecessor, The Burning Chambers , with a prologue set in 19th-century South Africa, a foreshadowing of where this epic story of war and displacement will end up, before the narrative returns to 16th-century France, 10 years after the end of the previous book.