User:Kequinn

Biography

Kate Quinn is a native of southern California. She attended Boston University, where she earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Classical Voice. She has worked as an administrator for a software company and a non-profit organization, and her interests include opera, action movies, cooking, and the Red Sox. The daughter of a history major, she grew up with anecdotes about Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great instead of Grimm’s fairy tales, and used to sneak out of bed to watch I, Claudius behind her parents’ backs. She wrote her first story at seven and her first book at ten. Still in elementary school when she saw the movie Spartacus, she resolved to someday write a book about a gladiator. That ambition turned into The Emperor’s Mistress, written in Boston University’s basement computer lab when she was a college freshman. Kate currently lives in San Diego with her fiancé.