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Kate Horsley

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Born
Richmond, Virginia, The United States
Website

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PaganNun

Genre
Historical Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Influences
Kafka, Joyce, Woolf

Member Since
September 2012


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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Average rating: 3.83 · 3,575 ratings · 518 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors
Confessions of a Pagan Nun
3.90 avg rating — 2,857 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions
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The Changeling
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Black Elk in Paris
3.39 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
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Crazy Woman
3.49 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions
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A Killing in New Town
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Between the Legs
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Careless Love: Or the Land ...
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X & O
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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
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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.”
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“It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.”
― Kate Horsley, Confessions of a Pagan Nun
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Our genre for April...Historical Fiction! Here are the selections to choose from. Place your vote. The poll will end on Saturday, March 5.

The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë by Syrie James Syrie James
 
  4 votes, 50.0%

The Accursed The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates
 
  2 votes, 25.0%

Confessions of a Pagan Nun Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley Kate Horsley
 
  2 votes, 25.0%

Genghis: Birth of an Empire Genghis Birth of an Empire (Conqueror, #1) by Conn Iggulden Conn Iggulden
 
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The Countess The Countess by Rebecca Johns Rebecca Johns
 
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Mar 23, 2016 10:07AM

Kate Horsley I'm posting this hoping that it's not too offensive to "market" my book "Between the Legs" here. This is the book that won the Kenneth Patchen Award for Innovative Fiction for 2015, which I'm so grateful for, but I've had a hard time getting the gumption to promote it. http://www.amazon.com/Between-Legs-Jo...


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