Katie Hickman

Katie Hickman (born 1960^[1]) is an English novelist and travel writer.

Hickman studied English literature at Pembroke College, Oxford.^[2] The daughter of a diplomat, she began her career as a travel writer. Her first book was Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon (1987), an account of a journey across Bhutan. She followed it with A Trip to the Light Fantastic (1993), which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Her next book, Daughters of Britannia: the Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives (1999) was a best-seller,^[3] and launched her as an author of history books. It was serialised on the BBC Radio 4 series Woman's Hour.

Her first novel, The Quetzal Summer (1992), resulted in her being nominated for the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award.^[4]

Hickman is married to philosopher A. C. Grayling and they have a daughter, Madeleine.^[5]

Bibliography

Travel

• Travels with a Circus (2001)
• Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon: Journey into Bhutan (2002)

Novels

• The Aviary Gate (2009)
• The Pindar Diamond (2011)

Other

• Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives (2002)
• Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century (2003)

References