Katherine Neville (author)

Katherine Neville (1945) is a ''New York Times'', ''USA Today'' and #1 internationally bestselling American author who writes adventure/ quest novels. Her novels include '' The Eight'' (1988), '' A Calculated Risk'' (1992), ''The Magic Circle'' (1998) and '' The Fire'' (2008), which is a sequel to ''The Eight''.

Biography

Katherine Neville was born in the midwest and attended university in Colorado, later doing postgraduate studies in African literature. She then moved to New York City and began a career in the computer field working for IBM in transportation and energy.Katherine Neville Official Site - Biography
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In the 1970s Neville was an international data processing consultant to the Algerian government, and in the late 1970s she went to work at the Department of Energy's nuclear research site in Idaho. Between jobs and during school, she supported herself as a painter and a model. This experience led her to develop her own photography skills and eventually start a photography business in Colorado, which she ran for several years.

In 1980, she moved to San Francisco and became a vice president at Bank of America. After publication of her first book ('' The Eight''), she moved to Europe, living in Vienna, Austria, and northern Germany, with her spouse, the late neuroscientist Dr. Karl Pribram. In the 1990s Neville and Pribram moved to Virginia and Washington, DC. Her restoration of renowned potte
Teruo Hara's
home and studio was featured in ''The Washington Post''.

Works

Neville's novels have been compared with the works of Alexandre Dumas, Umberto Eco, Charles Dickens, and Steven Spielberg. Her books have been translated into forty languages and are in print in over 80 countries. Neville’s books have appeared on bestseller lists and received multiple awards and honors around the world.Katherine Neville Official Site-The Books
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Short Stories and Chapters

* Acqua Vitae (in ''Romantic Times Booklovers: The Haunted West''). November 12, 2018.
* Cuba Libre (in ''Mystery Writers of America: Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War''. Edited by Jeffery Deaver & Raymond Benson). April 1, 2014.
* The Lunar Society (in ''The Mystery Writers of America: The Mystery Box''. Edited by Brad Meltzer). January 1, 2013.
* En Passant (in ''Masters of Technique''. Edited by Howard Goldowsky). June 16, 2010.
* The Tuesday Club (in ''Thriller: Stories to Keep you Up All Night''. Edited by James Patterson). June 1, 2006.
* Chapter 13 (in ''I’d Kill for That, a serial nove''l. Edited by Marcia Talley). May 1, 2004.
* The Yi-Ching: A Yarrow-ing Experience (in ''I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers''. Edited by R. Rapoport & M. Castanera). October 1, 1994.
* La Bellini's Favors (in ''Sisters in Crime 4''. Edited by Marilyn Wallace). January 1, 1991.

Essays and Forewords

* Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” (in ''Thrillers: 100 Must Reads''. Edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner). July 5, 2010.
* Foreword to ''Turning the Solomon Key'' by Robert Lomas. September 1, 2007.

Acclaim

'' The Eight'' garnered international acclaim upon its release and continues to be ranked as a top thriller novel. ''Publishers Weekly'' said, “Even readers with no interest in chess will be swept up into this astonishing fantasy-adventure… Neville has great fun rewriting history and making it all ring true. With two believable heroines, nonstop suspense, espionage, murder, and a puzzle that seems the key to the whole Western mystical tradition, this spellbinder soars above the level of first-rate escapist entertainment.” ''The Washington Post'' called ''The Eight'' "A feminist answer to Raiders of the Lost Ark." The ''Boston Herald'' lauded the novel as “The female counterpart to Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose… Impossible to put down.”

'' A Calculated Risk'' was selected as a ''New York Times'' Notable Book for 1992. Newgate Callendar of the ''New York Times Book Review'' said, “Never a dull moment, and Ms Neville makes it all the more plausible because of her intimate knowledge of how international banking works. She plots well and takes the reader through the intrigues and backbiting of immense corporations… Calculated Riskchurns up wave after wave of excitement."

''Booklist'' called ''The Magic Circle'' "compelling" and noted that "fans of that emerging subgenre —– the millennial thriller —- will want to add this one to their reading list.” Beth Dora Reisberg of ''January Magazine'' termed ''The Magic Circle'' a "tour de force."

'' The Fire'', Neville's sequel to '' The Eight,'' topped bestseller lists internationally and quickly became a ''New York Times'' Bestseller. In a 2008 review in ''The Independent'' of London, Barry Forshaw declared that ''The Fire'' was much better than ''The Da Vinci Code''. The ''Chicago Sun-Times'' stated, "Katherine Neville’s follow up to ''The Eight'', a cult classic that impressed many readers as a more intelligent and literary precursor to Dan Brown’s ''The DaVinci Code.'' . . ''The Fire'' impresses as much for its literary aspects as it does for its action, puzzles and suspense . . . This is a book to be savored as it’s read, and admired for the beauty of its accomplishment.”

Neville’s books have been bestsellers in many countries, and appeared on many bestseller lists in the United States, including ''USA Today'', ''New York Times'', ''Publishers Weekly'', ''Wall Street Journal'', ''Indie List'', ''Seattle Times'', ''San Francisco Chronicle'', ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Washington Post'', ''St Paul Pioneer Press'', and ''Denver Post''.

Awards and honors

* 1988: Katherine Neville received the first full-page interview given to an unpublished author, in ''Publishers Weekly''.
* 1989: ''The Eight'' was chosen "Critics' Choice" by the editors of ''People Magazine''.
* 1992: ''A Calculated Risk'' was selected a ''New York Times'' "Notable Book of the Year".
* 1990: ''The Eight'' received the award for "Best Historic Fiction" from the editors of ''Romantic Times Magazine''.
* 1991: Katherine Neville was the invited keynote speaker at the prestigious Âteneo de Madrid.
* 1999: ''The Eight'', in a national readers' poll by the noted Spanish journal ''El Pais'', was voted one of the top ten books of all time.
*2000: Katherine Neville was awarded the Turkish Cultural Ministry's Medallion of Merit.
* 2009: Neville was awarded the prestigious Silver Nautilus Book Award for Visionary Fiction for her novel ''The Fire'' (sequel to ''The Eight'').
* 2010: ''The Eight'' was included by the editors of ''Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads'' (Oceanview Press) as one of the best one hundred thrillers of all time.
* 2018: National Public Radio includes ''The Eight'' in "Audience Picks: 100 Best Killer Thrillers."
* 2019: Amazon.com includes ''The Eight'' in "100 Mysteries & Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime."

Board memberships & Sponsorships

* Katherine Neville was the first author invited to serve on the Advisory Board of the Smithsonian Libraries in Washington, DC, where she is emerita, having served a full three terms. Smithsonian sponsorships:
** Neville co-sponsored, with Dr. Karl Pribram, th
Smithsonian Libraries’ Neville-Pribram Mid-Career Educators Award
the first grant in the U.S. created for mid-career teachers in middle school, high school and college.
** Neville created th
Smithsonian Libraries’ ''50th Anniversary: Famous Author Tributes''
- a series of brief films of personal tributes to the importance of libraries by award-winning journalists, historians, novelists, and poets.
* Katherine Neville created and sponsore

given jointly by two prestigious institutions: the Library of Virginia and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The award, for excellence in writing about the visual arts, is the first of its kind, given in multiple categories, including history, biography, fiction, poetry, journalism, young adult, and museum catalogues.
* Katherine Neville is one of the original sponsoring co-founders of the International Thriller Writers Association.
* Neville currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Authors Guild Foundation in New York.

References

External links

Katherine Neville's official website
(fan-created website)

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Living people
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American women novelists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
Women mystery writers
Novelists from Missouri
1945 births