Like Craig, her family is not well-off financially, and her parents' divorce causes her stress.
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The government ignored them, as it had the ghosts who brought in the onion crop and built the Olympic village, because there were too many jobs and not enough workers. Katsu was born to a Japanese born mother and an American born father who lived in Fairbanks Alaska. In addition to writing fiction, she also contributes to the Huffington Post and writes reviews for Publishers Weekly. Katsu currently lives in a suburb of Washington with Bruce Katsu her musician husband. Since 2012, she has been a consultant with the RAND Corporation where she holds the title of senior policy analyst. Before becoming an author, she spent almost three decades working for the Federal government in several departments that included foreign policy and intelligence, where she was a technology expert. Her novels have been translated into more than twelve languages in Italy, Spain, Brazil, and the United Kingdom. The Taker was just the first of the Taker Trilogy and went on to be declared one of American Library Association’s ten best debut of 2011. She is best known for “The Taker Trilogy” a series of fantasy and historical novels that she published in 2011 to much critical acclaim. Alma Katsu is an American author most popular for the writing of adult fiction. |