Katie hickman biography
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Hickman, Katie 1960-
(Katie Lucy Hickman)
PERSONAL: Whelped December 6, 1960, steadily Wellington, Creative Zealand; girl of Can Kyrle (a diplomat stand for author) become calm Jennifer Olive (Love) Hickman; married Negroid Owen-Edmunds (a photographer), Oct 17, 1987 (marriage ended); married A. C. Grayling; children: Saint Lovell Painter. Education: Corgi College, Town, B.A. (with honors), 1982, M.A., 1987. Politics: "Not affiliated." Religion:Church of England.
ADDRESSES: Home—The Trainer House, Talycoed Court, nigh Monmouth, Gwent NP5 4HR, Wales. Agent—c/o Author Letters, William Morrow & Co., 10 Eastmost 53rd St., 7th Deck, New Royalty, NY 10022.
CAREER: Freelance essayist, 1982–.
MEMBER: Authors Licensing keep from Collecting Society.
AWARDS, HONORS: Unspoiled of description Year furl, London Independent, 1993, seek out A Talk to picture Light Fantastic.
WRITINGS:
Dreams of rendering Peaceful Dragon: A Outing to Bhutan, Gollancz (London, England), 1987.
The Quetzal Summer, Sceptre (Sevenoaks, England), 1993.
A Trip pay homage to the Get somewhere Fantastic: Travels with a Mexican Circus, Flamingo (London, England), 1994.
Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Bygone of Thoughtful Wives, Morrow (New Royalty, NY), 1999.
Courtesans: Money, Coitus, and Laurels in say publicly Nineteenth Century, Morrow (New York, NY), 2003
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Diamond discoveries
Not long after I began writing my Aviary Gate series of historical novels, I came across of portrait of Paul Pindar. It shows a narrow-faced, scholarly-looking man in his middle years. He wears a suit of sober merchant’s black, a falling collar of simple but exceedingly expensive white lace at his neck. The portrait is one of a pair, the other being that of his brother Ralph, an altogether stouter, bearded fellow, paler in colouring (for some reason I have always imagined him as having reddish or russet-coloured hair) and altogether more pugnacious in his expression.
Although it was not until the final book of my trilogy, The House at Bishopsgate, that I came to write about Ralph, Paul Pindar himself, an otherwise obscure seventeenth-century Levant Company merchant, has dominated my writing life for the last ten years.
Paul Pindar – a fictional version of a real-life merchant – became one of the central figures almost as soon as the project was conceived; in fact, I began to think of him as one of my ‘characters’ even before I began writing.
I was living and researching in Istanbul at the time. A friend, the historian and academic John Freely, had arranged for me to have a visitor’s pass to the University of the Bosphorus. Much as my present-day cha
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Appearances and Speaking Engagements in 2022:
Katie Hickman is the best-selling author of ten books. Her most recent work, Brave Hearted, was preceded by She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India 1600 - 1900 (published in 2019), and by the highly-acclaimed series of novels, The Aviary Gate, The Pindar Diamond and The House at Bishopsgate, a trilogy set in early seventeenth century Constantinople, Venice, London, and rural Wiltshire.
She is also the author of two best-selling history books, Courtesans and Daughters of Britannia, which between them have sold more than quarter of a million copies worldwide. Her other works include two travel books, Travels with a Mexican Circus (republished by Bloomsbury in August 2014) which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in 1993, and Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon, the story of a journey on horseback across the forbidden Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Her first novel, The Quetzal Summer, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. Her books have been translated into 20 languages.
Katie Hickman lives on a converted barge on the Thames in London with her partner, the designer Matthew Ruscombe-King.