Just the Facts:

• Name: Kate Klise
• Occupation: author
• Other jobs along the way: journalist, waitress, rosebush pruner, ice-skating instructor, babysitter
• Birthday: April 13
• Birthplace: Peoria, Illinois
• Home now: I divide my time between a farmhouse set on 40 acres in the Missouri Ozarks, a brick bungalow in St. Louis, and a tiny apartment in Lisbon, Portugal.
• Education: Marquette University, Universidad de Madrid
• Favorite books: Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson, Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney, Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns, Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White, Doctor DeSoto by William Steig, and a thousand other titles I don’t have room to list here
• Favorite things to do: read, write, laugh, tinker, walk for hours, get lost in beautiful places​

What have I written?:

1. Lots of books, many of which are illustrated by my sister, M. Sarah Klise
2. Loads of articles for People magazine, mainly about crime, music, celebrities, everyday heroes, and the villain next door
3. A newspaper column for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which I wrote weekly and weakly until I was fired (Best thing that ever happened to me!)
4. Boring press releases for the federal government (Also a good thing because it gave me time to think about other, more interesting things)
5. Transcripts for a PBS affiliate in New Orleans (No original thinking required, but it taught me how to type really, really fast)
6. Thousands of letters to family and friends, which is probably why I write a lot of my books in an epistolary style
7.  A blog which you can read right here