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Katherine Howe

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Houston, Texas, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Young Adult, Nonfiction

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Edith Wharton, Matthew Pearl, Arthur Miller

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Katherine Howe is a #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning writer of historical fiction and nonfiction. Her best known books are The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, which debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list in 2009 and was named one of USA Today's top ten books of the year, and Conversion, which received the 2015 Massachusetts Book Award in young adult literature. In 2014 she edited The Penguin Book of Witches for Penguin Classics, a primary source reader on the history of witchcraft in England and North America. She co-authored the bestselling Vanderbilt: the Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty with CNN's Anderson Cooper, which came out in September 2021. Her next novel will be out from Holt in Fall 2023. She ho ...more

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	The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 55,481 ratings — published 2009 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Katherine Howe (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.45 avg rating — 37,844 ratings — published 1851 — 2826 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 29,765 ratings — published 2021 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conversion 3.31 avg rating — 9,647 ratings — published 2014 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House of Velvet and Glass 3.34 avg rating — 7,639 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs (The Physick Book, #2) 3.75 avg rating — 5,442 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Appearance of Annie Van Sinderen 3.51 avg rating — 1,986 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Penguin Book of Witches 3.54 avg rating — 1,272 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conversion 9-Copy Fd W/ Riser 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Katherine Howe answered wendy s's question: Miss Howe. My name is Mosaica and I am a full blown book-a-cholic . I read/eat a book about every three or four days. (Around age 11 my best friend and I taught ourselves how to speed read - God bless Nancy Drew. lol) Taking into account I am 64, that's a lot of books! No matter how many books I enjoy; "The Physick Book..." remains and endures on my top 10 hit parade. Might you bless us with a third? Thank you for this delightful note Wendy. That's a lot of reading! I'm honored that Physick Book would hold a place in your top 10. I have a new novel coming in 2023 that will be about a female pirate beginning in Boston in 1726, which will be sort o See Full Answer
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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

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“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

tags: daughter, mother, relationship

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“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.”
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“In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way.”
― Katherine Howe, The House of Velvet and Glass

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“But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.”
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“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

tags: daughter, mother, relationship

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“...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually those parts of you disappear. And then the people who could remember those parts of you disappear, and before long, all that's left is your name in some ledger. This...person -- she had a favorite food. She had friends and people she disliked. We don't even know how she died...I guess that's why I like preservation better than history. In preservation I feel like I can keep some of it from slipping away.”
― Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

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