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  <name><![CDATA[Kate Quinn]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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. 

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. Still in elementary school when she saw the movie Spartacus, she resolved to someday write a book about a gladiator. That ambition turned into Mistress of Rome, written in Boston University's basement computer lab when she was a freshman in college. 

Kate is currently planning both a sequel and a prequel to Mistress of Rome. She now lives in San Diego with her husband, and her interests include opera, movies, cooking, and the Boston Red Sox. ]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Bernard Cornwell, Judith Merkle Riley, C.S. Forester, Eva Ibbotson]]></influences>    <hometown>Long Beach, CA</hometown>  <born_at>11/30/1981</born_at>    
  
  
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