Kate O'Brien (3 December 1897 â€" 13 August 1974) was an Irish
novelist and playwright.Kathleen Mary Louise "Kate" O'Brien was born
in Limerick City in 1897 to a middle-class family. Following the death
of her mother when she was five, she joined her three older sisters as
a boarder at Laurel Hill Convent becoming the youngest pupil at the
school. She graduated in 1919 in English and French from the newly
established University College, Dublin, and she then moved to London,
where she worked as a teacher for a year.[1]In 1922â€"23, she worked
as a governess in the Basque Country, in the north of Spain, where she
began to write fiction.[2] Upon her return to England, O'Brien worked
at the Manchester Guardian.[3] She married Dutch journalist Gustaff
Reiner in 1922 but the marriage ended within a year. After the success
of her play Distinguished Villa in 1926, she took to full-time writing
and was awarded both the 1931 James Tait Black Prize and the
Hawthornden Prize for her debut novel Without My Cloak. Kate O'Brien
is best known for her 1934 novel The Ante-Room, her 1941 novel The
Land of Spices, and the 1946 novel That Lady.[4]
novelist and playwright.Kathleen Mary Louise "Kate" O'Brien was born
in Limerick City in 1897 to a middle-class family. Following the death
of her mother when she was five, she joined her three older sisters as
a boarder at Laurel Hill Convent becoming the youngest pupil at the
school. She graduated in 1919 in English and French from the newly
established University College, Dublin, and she then moved to London,
where she worked as a teacher for a year.[1]In 1922â€"23, she worked
as a governess in the Basque Country, in the north of Spain, where she
began to write fiction.[2] Upon her return to England, O'Brien worked
at the Manchester Guardian.[3] She married Dutch journalist Gustaff
Reiner in 1922 but the marriage ended within a year. After the success
of her play Distinguished Villa in 1926, she took to full-time writing
and was awarded both the 1931 James Tait Black Prize and the
Hawthornden Prize for her debut novel Without My Cloak. Kate O'Brien
is best known for her 1934 novel The Ante-Room, her 1941 novel The
Land of Spices, and the 1946 novel That Lady.[4]
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