Katherine Howe
Historian and novelist
Katherine Howe is an American novelist and historian who co-wrote Astor with Anderson Cooper. Her debut novel, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, appeared in 2009.
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American Born 1977 in Houston, United States
About Katherine Howe
Katherine Howe is an American writer of historical fiction and nonfiction, born in Houston, Texas, and now living in New England. Her debut novel, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, is linked to the Salem witch trials and was a New York Times bestseller. Her fiction has been translated into more than twenty languages. She has also written Conversion, which won the 2015 Massachusetts Book Award in young adult literature, and the novel A True Account. She edited The Penguin Book of Witches and The Penguin Book of Pirates. With Anderson Cooper she co-wrote Vanderbilt: the Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, followed by Astor: the Rise and Fall of an American Fortune, published in September 2023. She studied art history and philosophy at Columbia and American and New England studies at Boston University.