Katherine Neville (author)

The Fire, Neville's sequel to The Eight, topped bestseller lists internationally and quickly became a NY Times Bestseller. In a 2008 review in The Independent of London, Barry Forshaw declared that The Fire was much better than The Da Vinci Code. The Chicago Sun-Times stated, "Katherine Neville’s follow up to The Eight, a cult classic that impressed many readers as a more intelligent and literary precursor to Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code. . . The Fire impresses as much for its literary aspects as it does for its action, puzzles and suspense . . . This is a book to be savored as it’s read, and admired for the beauty of its accomplishment.”

A Calculated Risk was selected as a NY Times Notable Book for 1992. Newgate Callendar of the NY Times Book Review said, “Never a dull moment, and Ms Neville makes it all the more plausible because of her intimate knowledge of how international banking works. She plots well and takes the reader through the intrigues and backbiting of immense corporations…[A Calculated Risk] churns up wave after wave of excitement."

In 1980, she moved to San Francisco and became a vice president at Bank of America. After publication of her first book (The Eight), she moved to Europe, living in Vienna, Austria, and northern Germany, with her spouse, the late neuroscientist, Dr. Karl Pribram. In the 1990s Neville and Pribram moved to Virginia and Washington, DC. Her restoration of renowned potter Teruo Hara's home and studio was featured in The Washington Post.

In the 1970s Neville was an international data processing consultant to the Algerian government, and in the late 1970s she went to work at the Department of Energy's nuclear research site in Idaho. In between jobs and during school, she supported herself as a painter and a model. This experience led her to develop her own photography skills and eventually start a photography business in Colorado, which she ran for several years.

Katherine Neville (1945) is a NY Times, USA Today & #1 Internationally bestselling American author who writes adventure/quest novels. Her novels include The Eight (1988), A Calculated Risk (1992), The Magic Circle (1998) and The Fire (2008), which is a sequel to The Eight.