Katherine Howe





Katherine Howe

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Katherine Howe was born in Houston, Texas, and received a degree in art history and philosophy from Columbia. She is completing a PhD in American and New England Studies at Boston University, which included teaching a research seminar on New England witchcraft. The idea for her first novel, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, developed while she was studying for her doctoral qualifying exams, walking her dog through the woods between Marblehead and Salem. She lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts with her husband and assorted animals.

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Average rating: 3.62 · 30,711 ratings · 4,953 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
The Physick Book of Deliver...
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“But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.”
Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

“Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.”
Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

“She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.”
Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

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