Katharine Gordon

Katharine Gordon (born 1916) was a British writer of eight romance novels from 1978 to 2001. By her debut novel "The Emerald Peacock" she won in 1978 the Authors' Club First Novel Award, and in 1979 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award of Special Merit by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Gordon was born on 1916 in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, but she grew up in India. She married an English RAF pilot, retired after World War II, and flew as an airline captain. Before writing, she worked as Secretary to E. A. Army Wardens in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1950 to 1951; as Immigration Officer at the Immigration Department in Nairobi from 1954 to 1957; and as Consular Clerk at British Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, from 1964 to 1969.