Kate Summerscale

Kate Summerscale (* 1965 ) is an English non-fiction author who won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1998 and the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008. She also works as a journalist.

Life

Summerscale grew up in Japan, England and Chile. Her biography Guys Like Us - The Eccentric Life of Joe Carstairs ( The Queen of Whale Cay , 1997) about a lesbian sailor in the early 20th century won the Maugham Award, made it to the final of the Whitbread Book Award and was a No. 1- Times bestseller. On a murder in 1860, she authored the 2008 book The Suspicion of Mr. Whicher: or The Murder of Road Hill House , which won the Johnson Prize. In 2012 she remained associated with The Misconduct of a Lady: The Diary of Mrs. Robinson (Mrs Robinson's Disgrace) about the scandalous divorce of a certain Isabella Robinson in Edinburgh in the mid-19th century, one of the first to be given to the middle class by the matrimonial causes Act of 1857. For The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer , she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 2017 in the category “Best Non-Fiction”.

She is also a juror herself, for example for the Booker Prize .

Works

• The Queen of Whale Cay. 1997
  • Guys like us: the eccentric life of Joe Carstairs. German by Chris Hirte, Rütten and Loening, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-352-00617-3
• The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House. 2008
  • The suspicion of Mr. Whicher or the murder of Road Hill House. German by Alice Jakubeit, Bloomsbury, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8270-0778-0
• Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace. 2012
  • A Lady's Misconduct: The Case of Mrs. Robinson. German by Susanne Röckel, Bloomsbury, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8270-0921-0
• The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer. 2016

Web links

• Literature by and about Kate Summerscale in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kate Summerscale's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Description of your publisher
2. ^ Criticism at Perlentaucher
3. ^ Guardian