Kate O'Brien Born: 3-Dec-1897 Birthplace: Limerick, Ireland Died: 13-Aug-1974 Location of death: Canterbury, Kent, England Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Lesbian Occupation: Novelist Nationality: Ireland Executive summary: The Land of Spices Father: Thomas O'Brien (d. 1916) Mother: Catherine (d. 1902 cancer) Husband: Gustaaf Renier (Dutch journalist, m. 1923, div. 1923 or 1924)
High School: Laurel Hill Convent University: University College Dublin (1919) Teacher: St. Mary's Convent, Hampstead, London
The Guardian Foreign Language Translator Bankruptcy 1960
Author of books:
Without My Cloak (1931, novel) The Ante-Room (1934, novel) Mary Lavelle (1936, novel) Farewell Spain (1937, travelogue, political in nature) Pray for the Wanderer (1938, novel) The Land of Spices (1941, novel) The Last of Summer (1943, novel) That Lady (1946, novel) Theresa of Avila (1951, biography) The Flower of May (1953, novel) As Music and Splendour (1958, novel) My Ireland (1962)
Wrote plays:
Distinguished Villa (1926)
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