Lauren Kate

Lauren Kate (born March 21, 1981) is an American author of adult and young adult fiction. Thus far she's published thirteen novels and one novella. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages, have sold more than eleven million copies worldwide, and have spent combined months on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Her titles include The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove and Fallen, which reached number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List for children's chapter books. Fallen's sequel Torment entered the NYT Best Seller list at number 1. The sequels Passion and Rapture also reached the spot of NYT Best Seller #1. Kate was raised in Dallas, Texas, and has a Master's degree in fiction from the University of California, Davis. Kate has stated that experience of the "Old South" in the Atlanta area (she went to college at Emory) inspired her to set Fallen in a Civil War era academy.Kate married Jason Morphew, a poet and singer-songwriter, at the winery where Morphew worked in Esparto, CA, in 2009. They have two children.