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Kate Figes is an English author and journalist. She was born in 1957 in London, United Kingdom. She is the author of several books, including Couples: The Truth, Life After Birth, and Our Cheating Hearts. She has also written for The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, and The Sunday Times.
Figes attended the University of Sussex, where she earned a degree in English Literature. She then went on to pursue a career in journalism, writing for various publications.
Figes is married to the British author and journalist, Jonathan Freedland. They have two children together.
Figes has an estimated net worth of $1 million. She has earned her wealth through her writing career. She has also earned money through speaking engagements and book sales.
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After graduating in Russian and Arabic from the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster), Figes became a sales representative for the Pandora feminist publishing house, later a publicist and editor for the same firm. Figes followed her mother's profession, although she only became a full-time writer in her thirties. "It’s not easy to believe you can when your own mother is one too", she once said. Following a part-time job as fiction editor for Cosmopolitan, leading to newspaper commissions and her appointment in 1996 as the books editor of You magazine (a supplement of The Mail on Sunday), a post she retained for the rest of her career. She wrote seven books of non-fiction and two novels.
With her brother, Figes received naturalisation papers from the German embassy in June 2017. Figes wrote: "We were holding out our hands in forgiveness to shake those of younger Germans, who also bore no responsibility for the past at a time of growing nationalism and suspicion of 'the other' in Europe. All of this had contributed to the making of the decision".
Figes was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in September 2016 which had metatastacised. She wrote about her terminal illness in On Smaller Dogs and Larger Life Questions which was published by Virago in 2018.
For Couples: the Truth (2010), Figes interviewed 120 men and women in a relationship, both heterosexual and gay, about all aspects of their lives. Cassandra Jardine in The Daily Telegraph wrote that it is "a book that lingers in the mind, with a fundamentally upbeat message".
Figes' non-fiction book on adolescence, The Terrible Teens (2002), was followed by two novels, What About Me? The diaries and emails of a menopausal mother and her teenage daughter and its sequel What About Me Too? The Big Fat Bitch Book For Girls (2008) is partly a self-help book for teenagers, while Our Cheating Hearts – Love and Loyalty, Lust and Lies (2013) considered infidelity.
According to Melissa Benn, Figes wrote "several books on women's most profound experiences". Her first book, Because of Her Sex: The Myth of Equality for Women in Britain, was published in 1994, and concerned sexism. Life after Birth (1998) drew on interviews with several hundred interviews with new mothers and was a best-seller in the UK. Rebecca Abrams wrote in The Independent on Sunday, "combines personal opinion, anecdote, medical information, social history and (a few) statistics." A decade later, Abrams described it as "taboo-busting" in laying "bare the secret ambivalence and confusion at the heart of many women's experience of motherhood."
Figes married Christopher Wyld in 1988; Wyld was then a foreign news editor for the BBC. The couple had two, now adult, daughters. Figes said in 2010 that her experience of her parents divorce left its mark on the early years of her own marriage: "I still spent the first 10 years of our marriage wondering when my husband was going to leave me!" Following the birth of her first daughter, Figes suffered from postnatal depression for a few years; diagnosis was somewhat delayed.
Kate Figes (/ˈ f ɪ dʒ ɪ z / born Catherine-Jane Figes; 6 November 1957 – 7 December 2019) was an English author and journalist.
Kate Figes was the daughter of the feminist writer Eva (née Unger) and John George Figes. Her brother is the historian Orlando Figes. Their mother's Jewish family fled from Nazi Germany in 1939. Figes' parents divorced when she was aged 5, both relating different accounts as to what happened. She left home at 17 after a row with her mother; the relationship between the two women remained difficult for many years.