Katharine Gordon

Katharine Elsie Bain Gordon ( Hogg, 12 June 1915 – 3 July 2005) was a British author who wrote eight romance novels from 1978 to 2001. For her debut novel, The Emerald Peacock, she won in 1978 the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, and in 1979 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award of Special Merit by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Life and career Gordon was born in Aberdeen, Scotland on 12 June 1915 to Ceylon missionary Henry Robert William Hogg and Katharine Eliza Hogg (née Henry). She started writing when she was seven years old. She moved to India at the age of seven, where she later spent much of her life. She married Donald, an English Royal Air Force pilot, in India. He left the RAF following World War II, and flew as an airline captain.

In 1981 Gordon was dividing her time between residencies in Cyprus and Jersey. She later remarried, and died as Katharine Hornsby in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, on 3 July 2005, at the age of 90.