![]() She was more of a reader and at that time, the thought that she would one day become a writer maybe seemed far-fetched. The author has been married twice while she was a student to the father of her firstborn daughter eve and later on to the father of Helen, her second daughter.Īs a child, Kate had no brothers or sisters to play around with and most of the times she sought companionship in books. Currently, she still resides in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was at this point that she began writing and she started with short stories. Then, she lived in Whitby, Yorkshire and soon after she moved to Edinburgh where she got a teaching job at the University of Dundee. On leaving the university, Atkinson took up several diverse jobs ranging from a home help to a teacher. Around the same time, she got married for the first time but the marriage only lasted for two years. Nonetheless she failed at the oral examination (viva) stage, and this she spoke about publicly. Consequently, Kate began to work on her doctorate degree in American Literature, by the title ’ The post-modern American short story in its historical context’’. ![]() She went to the University of Dundee where she studied English literature and eventually obtained her Master’s degree in 1974. ![]() Kate Atkinson, the daughter of a shopkeeper, was born in 1951 in York, England, United Kingdom. ![]()
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