Press Kit
Katherine Neville is the NY Times, USA Today & #1 Internationally bestselling author of Adventure/Quest novels: The Eight, The Fire, The Magic Circle and A Calculated Risk. Her award-winning novels are translated into forty languages, in more than eighty countries.
Her novels have been described as thriller, historic, modern, mystery, sci-fi/fantasy and epic literature. Katherine has been dubbed the “female” Umberto Eco, Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, and Stephen Spielberg. The Washington Post called The Eight “a feminist answer to Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
Invited Speaker
Neville has been an invited speaker or featured guest at many universities, conferences, and other prestigious venues around the world, including:
· Ateneo de Madrid: Spain
· The Baltimore Book Festival: Maryland
· Georgia Tech Women’s Leadership Conference: Georgia
· Idaho Writers Rendezvous: Idaho
· First International Mevlana (Rumi) Symposium: Ankara, Turkey (See more)
· The James River Writers’ Conference: Virginia
· The Library of Congress: Washington, DC
· The National Book Festival: Washington, DC
· The National Kidney Foundation Annual Author Luncheon: San Francisco & Sacramento, California
· National Public Radio
· Orkney Science Fair: Scotland
· Smithsonian Associates Lectures: Washington, DC
· The Today Show
· Turkish Culture Ministry: Konya, Turkey
· University of Menendez & Pelayo: Spain
· Voice of America
Books
“With alchemical skill, Neville blends modern romance, historical fiction, and medieval mystery . . . and comes up with gold.”
—People
“A blockbuster thriller. . . The Fire is refreshingly original . . . a danger-crammed, picaresque narrative involving the legendary chess set. All of this is dashed off by Neville with great verve.”
—The Independent, UK
“Compelling… fans of that emerging subgenre — the millennial thriller — will want to add this one to their reading list.”
—Booklist
“Never a dull moment, and Ms Neville makes it all the more plausible because of her intimate knowledge of how international banking works.”
—The New York Times
Press Contacts
Literary Agent
Simon Lipskar
President
Writers House
Fax: (212) 685-1781
Literary Agent
Director
London
EC1R 5ET England
Tel: +44 20 3327 0400
Fax: +44 20 7430 0801
www.andrewnurnberg.com
Intellectual Properties Attorney
(Film & Dramatic Rights)
Matthew Swanlund
Founding Attorney
Aesthetic Legal
8055 W Manchester Ave
Ste 310
Playa del Rey, CA 90293
Tel: (310) 301-4545
www.AestheticLegal.com
