Kate Saunders
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Kate Saunders (born 4 May 1960 in London) is an English writer, actress and journalist. The daughter of the early public relations advocate Basil Saunders[1] and his journalist wife Betty (née Smith),[2] Saunders has worked for newspapers and magazines in the UK, including The Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph, She and Cosmopolitan.[3]
She has also been a regular contributor to radio and television, with appearances on the Radio 4 programmes Woman's Hour, Start the Week and Kaleidoscope.[4] She was, with Sandi Toksvig, a guest on the first episode of the long-running news quiz programme Have I Got News for You.[5]
Saunders won the annual Costa Children's Book Award for Five Children on the Western Front (2014), a contribution to the classic fantasy series that Edith Nesbit inaugurated in 1902 with Five Children and It.[6][7]
She has written many books, such as "The Wild Young Bohemians" and also co-wrote Catholics and Sex (1992) with Peter Stanford[8] who was then editor of the Catholic Herald[9][10] Saunders and Stanford later presented a television series based on the book on Channel 4.[11]
Saunders is also an actress, appearing as a policewoman dated by Rodney Trotter in an episode of Only Fools and Horses in 1982.[12]
References
- ↑ Traverse-Healy, Tim (19 June 1998). "Obituary:Basil Saunders". The Independent.
- ↑ Brown, Andrew (9 April 1997). "Obituary: Betty Saunders", The Independent.
- ↑ Author Spotlight at Random House.
- ↑ author profile at Random House
- ↑ HIGNFY – episode 1/1 at Comedy.Co.UK
- ↑ Vincent, Alice (5 January 2015). "Wartime adaptation of Five Children and It wins in Costa Book Award categories". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2015-01-20.
- ↑ Five Children Universe – Series Bibliography. ISFDB. Retrieved 2015-01-20. Select a title to see its linked publication history and general information. Select a particular edition (title) for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents.
- ↑ Stanford, Peter (1999). Cardinal Hume and the Changing Face of English Catholicism. A&C Black. 1999. Bibliographic data at Google Books.
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- ↑ Aled Jones with Good Morning Sunday. BBC. 6 December 2009.
External links
- Kate Saunders at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Kate Saunders at Library of Congress Authorities, with 12 catalogue records
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