Katherine Howe was born in Houston, Texas, a fact which often surprises people. She is the author of THE PHYSICK BOOK OF DELIVERANCE DANE, which debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, and which has been translated into over twenty languages. In 2012 she hosted the Expedition Week special "Salem: Unmasking the Devil" on the National Geographic Channel.Her second novel, a historical thriller set in Boston in the aftermath of the Titanic sinking entitled THE HOUSE OF VELVET AND GLASS, was released in the US in April 2012, and was a USA Today and New York Times e-book bestseller.Her third novel, a young adult historical thriller called CONVERSION, follows a group of teenage girls who must uncover the real reason behind a mysterious outbreak at their high school. Praised as "Prep meets The Crucible," CONVERSION will be released in the US on July 1, 2014. Katherine also served as editor of THE PENGUIN BOOK OF WITCHES, a collection of primary sources about witchcraft in English North America which will be released by Penguin Classics on Halloween 2014.She lives in Massachusetts and upstate New York with her family, where she teaches at Cornell while working on her next novel. She enjoys roaming the woods, reading, and sailing, and she looks very fetching in a pointy hat.She may be found on Facebook as Katherine Howe, and on the web at www.katherinehowe.com.