Kate Forsyth wrote her first novel at the age of seven and has since sold more than a million copies around the world. Her books include Bitter Greens, a retelling of Rapunzel which won the 2015 American Library Association Award for Best Historical Fiction; The Wild Girl, the story of the forbidden romance behind the Grimm Brothers’s famous fairy tales, which was named the Most Memorable Love Story of 2013; and The Beast’s Garden, a retelling of “The Singing, Springing Lark” set in the underground resistance to Hitler in Nazi Germany. Recently voted one of Australia’s Favorite 15 Novelists, Kate Forsyth has been called “one of the finest writers of this generation.” She has a BA in literature, an MA in creative writing, and a doctorate in fairy-tale studies, and is also an accredited master storyteller with the Australian Guild of Storytellers. |
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