Katherine / Kate Webb
1977
Katherine Webb is one of the noteworthy authors from The United Kingdom, who is famous for writing her books based on the fiction, contemporary, and historical fiction genres. She has written a number of successful standalone novels in her writing career. Author Webb was born in the year 1977 in Kent. She spent most of her time while growing up in the rural Hampshire. After finishing her high school graduation, Webb went on to study History at the Durham University. She says that history has remained like a passion in her life. Author Webb likes to develop her character-led suspense and mystery dramas with the historical settings very often. She never feels afraid to experiment and loves to explore new things in her life and career. Author Webb feels excited to find out how the past events can turn out in the current times. She also feels fascinated from the wide gray areas in the human behavior and morality. The debut book written by her was published under the title of ‘The Legacy’. It was voted as Best Read of the Summer by the viewers’ choice in 2010. The book also helped author Webb to get nominated for an award in the category of the Best Debut Writer during the national awards ceremony organized in the same year. Riding high with such a huge success in the initial stage of her career, author Webb went on to write a few more standalone books. The next 3 books that she wrote subsequently after the success of her first book were all listed as bestsellers in the list of top ten Sunday Times bestsellers. All the books that author Webb has written have been published and translated into as many as 24foreign languages all over the world. With the purpose of searching the background for developing her novels, author Webb spent some time in cities like Venice and London. Currently, she has a permanent residence in Berkshire, England. Before starting her career as a writer, she has worked for numerous odd jobs as a personal assistant, waitress, bookbinder, au pair, library assistant, housekeeper, and potter. Now that she has become a well established author, she devotes all her time towards writing her books. Whatever spare time she gets from her writing job, she likes to spend them in enjoy one or the other hobbies and doing research works for her next books.