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Katherine Gertrude Wilhelm (Meredith)

Also Known As: "Kate", "Katie", "Katherine", "Catherine"
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Birthplace: Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, United States
Death: March 08, 2018 (89)
Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Jesse Thomas Meredith and Ann Lulu Meredith
Wife of Damon Francis Knight
Ex-wife of Joseph Balmann Wilhelm
Mother of Private; Douglas W. Wilhelm and Private
Sister of Edwin J. Meredith; Eula Meredith; Kenneth L. Meredith; Russell W. Meredith and {Unknown} Pope

Occupation: Author of Science fiction, Mysteries, Legal Thrillers
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About Kate Wilhelm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Wilhelm

Kate Wilhelm (born June 8, 1928) was an American author. She wrote novels and stories in the science fiction, mystery, and suspense genres.

Career

Her first published short fiction was "The Pint-Size Genie" in the October 1956 issue of Fantastic, edited by Paul W. Fairman. Next year she placed one story in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction, and ten of her speculative fiction stories were published during 1958 and 1959. Her debut novel was a murder mystery, More Bitter Than Death (Simon & Schuster, 1963), and her first science fiction debut, The Clone (1965) by Wilhelm and Theodore L. Thomas, was a finalist for the annual Nebula Award.

Her work has been published in Quark/, Orbit, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Locus, Amazing Stories, Asimov's Science Fiction, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Fantastic, Omni, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Cosmopolitan, among many other places.

She and her second husband, Damon Knight, mentored many authors and helped to establish the Clarion Writers Workshop and the Milford Writer's Workshop.

Since the death of Damon Knight in 2002, Wilhelm has continued to host monthly workshops, as well as lecturing at other events.

Kate Wilhelm lived in Eugene, Oregon.

In 2012, Kate Wilhelm, along with Richard Wilhelm, Sue Arbuthnot, and Jonathan Knight, formed InfinityBox Press, LLC to publish all of Kate's new and legacy works as e-books.

Recognition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Wilhelm#Recognition

Works

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Wilhelm#Works

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Kate Wilhelm's Timeline

1928
June 8, 1928
Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, United States
2018
March 8, 2018
Age 89
Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, United States