Katherine Neville
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Katherine Neville is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 author who writes adventure
Adventure (genre)
The adventure genre, in the context of a narrative, is typically applied to works in which the protagonist or other major characters are consistently placed in dangerous situations...

 novels. Her novels include The Eight
The Eight (novel)
The Eight, published December 27, 1988, is American author Katherine Neville's debut novel. Compared to the works of Umberto Eco when it first appeared, it is a postmodern thriller in which the heroine, accountant Catherine Velis, must enter into a cryptic world of danger and conspiracy in order to...

, A Calculated Risk, and The Magic Circle. In 2008, she released The Fire, the sequel to The Eight.

Katherine Neville was born in St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

. After college, she moved to New York City and began a career in the computer field.

In the 1970s, Neville was an international consultant to the Algerian government, and in the late 1970s, she went to work at the Department of Energy's nuclear research site in Idaho. In between jobs and during school, she supported herself as a portrait painter and a model. These side jobs lead to her developing her own photography skills and eventually starting a photography business, which she ran for several years.

In 1980, she moved to San Francisco and eventually became a vice president at Bank of America.

After living in Europe for some time, Neville now resides in Washington, DC. The neuroscientist Karl H. Pribram
Karl H. Pribram
Karl H. Pribram is a professor at Georgetown University, in the United States, and an emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and Radford University...

 is her significant other. She is currently working on a new novel about painters.

Works

Neville's novels have been translated in more than forty languages, and have been on bestseller lists across the globe. Her novel The Eight
The Eight (novel)
The Eight, published December 27, 1988, is American author Katherine Neville's debut novel. Compared to the works of Umberto Eco when it first appeared, it is a postmodern thriller in which the heroine, accountant Catherine Velis, must enter into a cryptic world of danger and conspiracy in order to...

was voted by the Spanish journal El País as one of the top ten books of all time.
Year Title Notes
1988 The Eight
The Eight (novel)
The Eight, published December 27, 1988, is American author Katherine Neville's debut novel. Compared to the works of Umberto Eco when it first appeared, it is a postmodern thriller in which the heroine, accountant Catherine Velis, must enter into a cryptic world of danger and conspiracy in order to...

1992 A Calculated Risk
1998 The Magic Circle
2008 The Fire Sequel to The Eight

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