

I caught up to Kent by email, where she happily answered a few questions for Mother Daughter Book. Kent’s second novel, The Wolves of Andover, about the life of Thomas Carrier, will be published by Little Brown in November of 2010. Langum award for American historical fiction. Published in over a dozen countries, it was the recipient of the 2008 David J. Her first novel, The Heretic’s Daughter, is based in part on those family stories, passed down through many generations and has been a New York Times bestselling novel, both in hardcover and in paperback. In 2000 she returned with her family to Dallas and began writing the book she had always wanted to write the story of Martha Carrier, the author’s grandmother back 9 generations, who was hanged as a witch in Salem in 1692. Department of Defense, traveling extensively in the Former Soviet Union. After college she moved to New York where she worked in commodities and then as a contractor for the U.S. She grew up in Dallas before attending the University of Texas at Austin. Kathleen Kent is the author of The Heretic’s Daughter, a story of the Carrier family and the Salem Witch Trials ( see my review).
