Catherine "Kate" Klise (born April 13, 1963) is an American writer known for children's fiction. Many of her books are illustrated by her sister, M. Sarah Klise. Their popular Regarding series is presented in a scrapbook format, with letters, journal entries, and related ephemera telling the story. She is also known for her picture books as well as the bestselling 43 Old Cemetery Road series. Klise's first adult novel, In the Bag, was released in 2012. She is a contributor to The Huffington Post.
Life and career Klise was the fourth of six children born to educational film producer Thomas and Marjorie Klise. Raised in Peoria, Illinois, she attended Marquette University and spent fifteen years working as a correspondent for People magazine. She lives near Norwood, Missouri (from no later than 2007 apparently) – on "a 40-acre farm in the Missouri Ozarks", she says in 2016. Her Huffington Post blog is subtitled "Writer and hiker".
Klise has identified E. B. White as one influence.
Books
Children's books
Regarding series
Regarding the Fountain, 1998 Regarding the Sink, 2004 Regarding the Trees, 2005 Regarding the Bathrooms, 2006 Regarding the Bees, 2007
43 Old Cemetery Road series
Dying to Meet You, 2009 Over My Dead Body, 2009 Till Death Do Us Bark, 2011 The Phantom of the Post Office, 2012 Hollywood, Dead Ahead, 2013 Greetings from the Graveyard, 2014 The Loch Ness Punster, 2015
Three-Ring Rascals series
The Show Must Go On!, 2013 The Greatest Star on Earth, 2014 The Circus Goes to Sea, 2014 Pop Goes the Circus!, 2015 Secrets of the Circus, 2016
Standalone Books
Letters from Camp, 1999 Trial by Journal, 2001 Shall I Knit You a Hat?, 2004 Why Do You Cry?, 2006 Imagine Harry, 2007, with M. Sarah Klise Little Rabbit and the Night Mare, 2008, with M. Sarah Klise Little Rabbit and the Meanest Mother on Earth, 2010, with M. Sarah Klise Stand Straight, Ella Kate: The True Story of a Real Giant, 2010 Grammy Lamby and the Secret Handshake, 2012 Stay: A Girl, a Dog, a Bucket List, 2017 Don't Check Out This Book!, 2020 Mystery on Magnolia Circle, 2021
Novels
Deliver Us from Normal, 2005
Far From Normal, 2006 Grounded, 2010 In the Bag, 2012 Homesick, 2012
References
External links
Kate and Sarah Klise Kate Klise and M. Sarah Klise at Encyclopedia.com – from Something About the Author (Gale, 2006), both updated 2007 evidently
M. Sarah Klise at LC Authorities, with 26 records, and at WorldCat