Katherine Frank is a noted
American
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** American ancestry, p ...
author and biographer, now living in
England
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. Her works include a highly acclaimed biography of
Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon
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, and the more controversial book ''Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi,'' a biography of
Indira Gandhi
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. She has also written ''A Voyager Out: The Life of
Mary Kingsley
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'', ''
Emily Brontë
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: A Chainless Soul'' and ''
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:
Daniel Defoe
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,
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and the Creation of a Myth''.
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* http://houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=2378
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