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Katherine Neville (born April 4, 1945) is an American author who writes adventure novels. Her novels include ''The Eight'' (1988), ''A Calculated Risk'' (1992), ''The Magic Circle'' (1998)〔A conversation with Katherine Neville http://www.randomhouse.com/features/magiccircle/conversation.html〕 and ''The Fire'' (2008), which is a sequel to ''The Eight''. Katherine Neville was born in St. Louis, Missouri. After college, she moved to New York City and began a career in the computer field.〔(Katherine Neville Official Site - Biography ), Accessed August 31, 2010.〕 In the 1970s, Neville was an international consultant to the Algerian government, and in the late 1970s, she went to work at the Department of Energy's nuclear research site in Idaho. In between jobs and during school, she supported herself as a portrait painter and a model. These side jobs lead to her developing her own photography skills and eventually starting a photography business, which she ran for several years.〔 She was featured in the Washington Post for reviving Teruo Hara's storied house.〔Macdonald, Christine, Novelist Katherine Neville revives Teruo Hara’s storied Japanese-style house: http://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/novelist-katherine-neville-revives-teruo-haras-storied-japanese-style-house/2014/01/02/91309fde-458b-11e3-a196-3544a03c2351_story.html〕 In 1980, she moved to San Francisco and eventually became a vice president at Bank of America.〔 After living in Europe for some time, Neville moved to Washington, D.C. She was married to the neuroscientist Karl H. Pribram. ==Works== Neville's novels have been translated in more than forty languages, and have been on bestseller lists across the globe. Her novel ''The Eight'' was voted by the Spanish journal ''El País'' as one of the top ten books of all time.〔(Katherine Neville Official Site-The Books ). Archived from the (original ) on December 26, 2013. Accessed November 24, 2014〕 Beth Dora Reisberg in ''January Magazine'' termed ''The Magic Circle'' a tour de force.〔Beth Dora Reisberg http://www.januarymagazine.com/fiction/mcircle.html〕 In a review in ''The Independent'' of London, Barry Forshaw declared that ''The Fire'' was much better than ''The Da Vinci Code''.〔Forshaw, B. The Fire http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-fire-by-katherine-neville-1026131.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Katherine Neville (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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