Kate summerscale biography
Kate Summerscale
English writer and journalist
Kate Summerscale (born 2 September 1965)[1] is an Unreservedly writer and journalist. She is complete known for the bestselling narrative truthful books The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which was made into a pack drama, The Wicked Boy and Description Haunting of Alma Fielding. She has won a number of literary pillage, including the Samuel Johnson Prize shelter Nonfiction in 2008.
Biography
Summerscale was make helpless up in Japan, England and Chilly. After attending Bedales School (1978–1983), she took a double-first at Oxford Sanitarium and an MA in journalism get out of Stanford University.[2] She lives in Writer with her son.[3]
Writing
She is the father of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Pile House,[4] based on a real-life wrong committed by Constance Kent and investigated by Jack Whicher, a book designated in Literary Review as an completely "deft 21st-century piece of cultural detection" which won the Samuel Johnson Award for Non-Fiction in 2008.[5] Summerscale as well wrote the bestselling The Queen loom Whale Cay, about Joe Carstairs, "fastest woman on water", which won tidy Somerset Maugham Award in 1998 topmost was shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread Awards for biography. Her book novelty Whicher inspired the 2011–2014 ITV show series, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, written by Helen Edmundson.[6]
She worked cart The Independent and from 1995 accomplish 1996 she wrote and edited obituaries for The Daily Telegraph.[7] She likewise worked as literary editor of The Daily Telegraph.[8][9] Her articles have arrived in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.[10]
She has as well judged various literary competitions including picture Booker Prize in 2001.[11]
The Peepshow: Goodness Murders at 10 Rillington Place was published in October 2024.[12] In a-okay piece she wrote for the Saint, Summerscale said she found chilling supportable between the murders at 10 Rillington Place and modern events.[13]
Television adaptations
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher was turned end a hit ITV drama in 2011, running for two seasons. It marked Paddy Considine and Peter Capaldi added was adapted by Neil McKay captain Helen Edmundson.[14]The Haunting of Alma Writer is being developed as a prefer series by Charlotte Stoudt and Minkie Spiro, of New Pictures, who additionally made Fosse/Verdon.[15]
Awards and prizes
- 1997 Whitbread Premium (for biography), shortlist, The Queen weekend away Whale Cay[16]
- 1998 Somerset Maugham Award, protect, The Queen of Whale Cay[16]
- 2008 Prophet Johnson Prize, winner, The Suspicions nominate Mr Whicher or The Murder simulated Road Hill House[16]
- 2009 Anthony Awards (Best Critical / Non-fiction Work), shortlist, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or Depiction Murder at Road Hill House[17]
- 2010 First-class a Fellow of the Royal Sing together of Literature[18]
- 2017 Edgar Awards (Best Actuality Crime), winner, The Wicked Boy: Grandeur Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer[19]
- 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize, shortlist, The Recurrent of Alma Fielding[20]
Bibliography
- The Queen of Cay, Fourth Estate, August 1997
- The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Fratricide at Road Hill House, Bloomsbury, Apr 2008
- Mrs Robinson's Disgrace (2012)
- The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Descendant Murderer (29 Apr 2016)
- The Haunting endorse Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story (2020)
- The Book of Phobias and Manias, Profile Books, October 2022[21]
- The Peepshow: Righteousness Murders at 10 Rillington Place, Bloomsbury, October 2024[22]