Katherine Stone is a romance novelist and physician whose fiction brings emotional relationships, family ties, and medical experience into conversation. Her official website identifies her as a New York Times bestselling author of twenty-two novels whose books have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Stone studied English at Stanford University while completing premedical coursework, received an M.D. from the University of Washington, and subsequently trained in internal medicine and infectious disease. She worked in academic medicine before turning to fiction full time. Her professional background has informed settings and situations in her novels, while her stated interest as a writer is in characters confronting substantial obstacles and finding connection and love.
Her catalogued novel The Cinderella Hour belongs to a body of contemporary romantic fiction published over several decades. Stone continues to maintain an author website and lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, the physician and novelist Jack Chase. Her career is notable for sustaining both medical and literary work, and for a readership that has carried her novels into translation internationally.
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