{"alternate_names": ["Pearce, Kate (Romance author)", "Pearce Kate"], "title": "(Romance author)", "birth_date": "1963-01-19", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "photos": [14541814], "personal_name": "Kate Pearce", "key": "/authors/OL3235957A", "bio": "*New York Times* and *USA Toda*y bestselling author Kate Pearce was born in England in the middle of a large family of girls and quickly found that her imagination was far more interesting than real life. After acquiring a degree in history and barely escaping from the British Civil Service alive, she moved to California and then to Hawaii with her husband and her kids and set about reinventing herself as a romance writer.\r\n\r\nShe is known for both her unconventional heroes and her joy at subverting romance clich\u00e9s. In her spare time she self publishes science fiction erotic romance, historical romance, and whatever else she can imagine.\r\n\r\nSource: [Author's website](https://katepearce.com/about/)", "name": "Kate Pearce", "remote_ids": {"storygraph": "8499f722-7157-475b-a733-f72cbbc17e43", "librarything": "pearcekate", "isni": "0000000368746944", "goodreads": "688826", "viaf": "290171921", "amazon": "B002BLS9UE"}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-30T09:38:13.731961"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-11-08T13:30:31.953450"}}