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Kate Horsley

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January 01, 1952 in Richmond, VA, The United States

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Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1952, Kate Horsley Parker, the youngest of five children, loved to read. Her mother, Alice Horsley Parker, inspired that love, which is part of the reason that she chose to write under her mother’s maiden name. In her mother’s world, young women were to be educated and refined and passionate. While in a private girl’s school in Virginia during the sixties, Horsley protested against the Vietnam War and worked in the Civil Rights movement. And then she went off to college and off to Paris for summer school. Every event in life was marked by a book, an almost prophetic glimpse into what would become a passion. After reading a book by Alan Watts, Horsley’s flirtation with Zen Buddhism became a lifelong fling. Flyi...more

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Books by Kate Horsley

Average rating: 3.73 · 973 ratings · 165 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel 3.84 avg rating — 716 ratings — published 1952	My rating:
	The Changeling 3.49 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Black Elk in Paris: A Novel 3.19 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Crazy Woman 3.23 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Careless Love: Or the Land of Promise 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003	My rating:
	Adobe Walls by Kenneth P. Gurney, Kate Horsley (Contributor), Margaret Randall (Contributor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.”
― Kate Horsley

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“Use words to please, to instruct, to soothe. Then stop speaking.”
― Kate Horsley, Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel

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“I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.”
― Kate Horsley, Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel

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