Kate Harte has been a teacher, a traveler, an art historian, an archaeologist, a wife, and a mother. She has also been an avid reader all her life and enjoyed stories of romance since she first encountered Cinderella as a child. As a writer she is drawn to stories about women that combine experience with history, religion, and politics. She hopes women’s voices will become as strong as men’s in America and in the world.
With this intergenerational romantic comedy, Kate Harte hoped to inspire women to stand up for women’s rights and civil rights. Now, as in 1992, these rights are endangered in the US and the world is at war. The story began as a play but was turned into a novel because of the overthrow of Roe, the limitations on affirmative action, the upsurge in white supremacy, and the rise of Christian nationalism, all of which are chipping away at the democratic soul of America.
Kate Harte has a PhD in Fine Arts with a specialty in classical art and architecture and has taught at universities on the East and West coasts, where she witnessed all sorts of professor-student intimate relations, both consensual and predatory, long before sexual harassment became a byword of the #MeToo movement. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.