Katie Fforde
Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming Fforde | |
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| Born | Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming September 27, 1952 Wimbledon, London, England |
| Pen name | Katie Fforde |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Genre | romance |
| Spouse | Desmond Fforde (m. 1972) |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Sir William Gordon-Cumming (grandfather) |
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Katie Fforde, née Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming (born 27 September 1952), is a British romance novelist. Published since 1995, her novels are set in modern-day England.
She is founder of the Katie Fforde Bursary for writers who have yet to secure a publishing contract. She was for many years a committee member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and was elected its twenty-fifth chairman (2009–2011) and later its fourth president. In June 2010 she was announced as a patron of the UK's first National Short Story Week. In 2016, she launched the Stroud Contemporary Fiction Writing Competition as part of the first Stroud Book Festival.