Katherine Frank is a noted American author and biographer, now living in England. Her works include a highly acclaimed biography of Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon, and the more controversial book Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi, a biography of Indira Gandhi. She has also written A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley, Emily Brontë: A Chainless Soul and Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox and the Creation of a Myth.
References
- Harman, Claire (23 April 1994). "Book Review: Traveller's checks and bank balances: 'Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt'". The Independent. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
- Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin (25 March 2001). "A dynasty nastier than Dallas". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
- Hackett, Rosalind I. J.; Kingsley, Mary H.; Frank, Katherine (February 1991). "Travels in West Africa". Journal of Religion in Africa. 21 (1): 78. doi:10.2307/1581095. JSTOR 1581095.
Further reading
- Stevenson, Catherine Barnes (Summer 1988). "A Voyager Out (Book)". Victorian Studies. 31 (4): 608–609.
- Kobak, Annette (14 August 1994). "Uncharted territories". The New York Times Book Review.
- Mishra, Pankaj (9 April 2001). "A Mediocre Goddess". New Statesman. Vol. 130, no. 4532. pp. 54–57.
- Fathers, Michael (25 June 2001). "Demystifying a Demagogue". Time International. No. 25. p. 60.
- Khilnani, Sunil (17 December 2001). "States of Emergency". The New Republic. Vol. 225, no. 25. pp. 40–45.
- Sarvate, Sarita (May 2002). "Star of India". The Women's Review of Books. Vol. XIX, no. 8. pp. 4–5.
- "Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi". Virginia Quarterly Review. Vol. 78, no. 4. Autumn 2002. pp. 124–125.
- Eagleton, Terry (3 November 2011). "Moll's Footwear". London Review of Books. 33 (21): 23–24.
- Scutts, Joanna (18 May 2012). "Did the King of Kandy help inspire 'Robinson Crusoe'?". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 20 October 2017 – via HighBeam Research.
External links
- http://houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=2378 Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine