Kate Atkinson author biography, plus links to books by Kate Atkinson.

Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her 2013 novel set around the Second World War, Life After Life, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and voted Book of the Year by independent booksellers' associations on both sides of the Atlantic. It also won the Costa Novel Award, as did her subsequent companion novel, A God in Ruins (2015), and was adapted into a critically acclaimed television series in 2022. Her bestselling novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie became the BBC television series Case Histories, starring Jason Isaacs. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

This biography was last updated on 09/15/2026.

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