Kate Summerscale
Kate Summerscale , formerly the literary editor of The Telegraph , is the author of The Book of Phobias and Manias , The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher , a number one bestseller in the UK, which was translated into more than a dozen languages and won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the British Book Awards Book of the Year. Her first book, The Queen of Whale Cay , won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award, The Wicked Boy won the Edgar Award for...See more
Kate Summerscale , formerly the literary editor of The Telegraph , is the author of The Book of Phobias and Manias , The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher , a number one bestseller in the UK, which was translated into more than a dozen languages and won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the British Book Awards Book of the Year. Her first book, The Queen of Whale Cay , won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award, The Wicked Boy won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and The Haunting of Alma Fielding was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. Summerscale lives in London. See less
