Kate Fleming

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Kate (Kathryn) Fleming (born October 6, 1965 - December 14, 2006 in Seattle , Washington ) was an American audio book speaker and producer with numerous awards.

Kate Fleming was the owner of Cedar House Audio , a small audio products company that she founded in 2004 . The Seattle ( Washington , USA ) -based company specialized in converting literature into audio books and worked with Blackstone Audio and Harper Audio, among others. When a storm of the century struck Seattle in December 2006 , Kate Fleming was killed by a flash flood. The falling water destroyed her house in Madison Valley. Trapped in the rubble, she died from drowning.

Kate Fleming grew up in Washington, DC and graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg , Virginia in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion. She trained as an actress at the Actor's Theater of Louisville in Louisville , Kentucky , first went to New York , but soon returned to Washington, DC , where she performed as an actress for around five years. She got to know this medium better through a work in the audio studio of Grover Gardner and since the mid-1990s she has shifted her activities more and more to the production of audio books, which she often discussed under the pseudonym "Anna Fields".

She wowed her listeners in more than 200 titles, including Bel Canto by Ann Patchett , The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates , Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh , Any title by Louise Erdrich , All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki . Kate Fleming was something of a star among American professional audiobook speakers. The enormous range of her voice enabled her to bring all possible characters of the respective literature to life for her audience. Some writers have requested that their works be voiced exclusively by Kate Fleming.

Kate Fleming won more than a dozen times to the magazine Audio File conferred Earphone award was five times for the prestigious Audie Award for Fiction Unabridged nominated. The Audie Award is presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association for particularly outstanding audio books and is the highest distinction given by the audio industry. In 2004 Kate Fleming received this award for her performance of Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation .

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