Kate O'Brien (other)
Kate O'Brien may refer to: * Kate O'Brien (novelist) (1897–1974), Irish novelist and playwright * Kate O'Brien (cyclist) (born 1988), Canadian track cyclist and bobsledder * Kate Cruise O'Brien (1948–1998), Irish writer * Kate O'Brien (The Drew Carey Show), a character from ''The Drew Carey Show'' See also *Catherine O'Brien (other) * Cathy O'Brien (other) * Kate O'Brian, founder of O'Media Strategies * Katie O'Brien (born 1986), British professional tennis player * Katy O'Brien (Fair City character), from the Irish television series ''Fair City'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Obrien, Katie ...
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Kate O'Brien (novelist)
Kate O'Brien (3 December 1897 – 13 August 1974) was an Irish novelist and playwright. Biography Kathleen Mary Louise "Kate" O'Brien was born in Limerick City in 1897 to a middle-class family. Following the death of her mother when she was five, she joined her three older sisters as a boarder at Laurel Hill Convent becoming the youngest pupil at the school. She graduated in 1919 in English and French from the newly established University College, Dublin, and she then moved to London, where she worked as a teacher for a year. In 1922–23, she worked as a governess in Bilbao, Basque Country, in the north of Spain, where she began to write fiction.A.L. Mentxaka, ''Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity'' (McFarland, 2011) Upon her return to England, O'Brien worked at the ''Manchester Guardian''. She married Dutch journalist Gustaff Reiner in 1922 but the marriage ended within a year. After the success of her play ''Distinguished Villa'' in 1926, she took to full-time wr ...
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