Katherine Rundell, author portrait
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Katherine Rundell

KATHERINE RUNDELL is the internationally bestselling author of Impossible Creatures. Her other books for children include Rooftoppers, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer, and The Good Thieves. She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels, and London, and is currently a Fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. For adult readers, Rundell has written Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures and Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. She was the recipient of the British Book Award for Book of the Year and Author of the Year.
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Fri Oct 18
Brazos Bookstore
2421 Bissonnet St
Houston, TX 77005
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Sun Oct 20 | 12:00 PM
Barnes & Noble Montclair Place
5183 N Montclair Plaza Ln.
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140 KENTUCKY ST
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1378 Lincoln Ave
San Jose, CA 95125
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