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About Katherine Nouri Hughes

Author - Katherine Nouri Hughes

Katherine Nouri Hughes - Quick Facts

  • Favorite Activity (not related to writing): Listening to live jazz, jazz club crawling; Orpheus Chamber Orchestra rehearsals; tango; yoga (but that Is related to writing); being with my cat Allen.
  • Favorite place to go when thinking through a plot issue or book idea: I live near the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. There is a mile-long circle of planted meadow in front of it. That is where I walk and think.
  • Favorite Author: Richard Ford (living); Henry James, Giuseppe di Lampedusa (not).
  • Favorite Books: Women with Men by Richard Ford, Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, The Leopard by Lampedusa
  • Favorite Movie: Jules et Jim, Francois Truffaut
  • Favorite Pastime: Being with my grandchildren.
  • Favorite Speech and why: The Gettysburg Address – because it says all it means to say in 272 words; and because it describes in perfectly right words the wonder of humanity, the nobleness of America’s aim, the hope that inheres in purposeful aspiration.
  • What do you most like about being an author: I love to write. It makes me happy, focused, liberated. Writing propels, directs and concentrates my imagination. It makes me proud.

Interesting Highlights

Do you teach on a specific topic?

No, I don’t.

What specialized knowledge do you have?

I have some specialized knowledge in the Near East and its modern history. Also of the 16th century Ottoman Empire.

Do you, as an author, provide in-depth research on a topic?

I undertook in-depth research on the 16th century – Ottoman and Venetian history, navigation, astronomy, trade, daily life and warfare for my historical novel The Mapmaker’s Daughter.

What else do you want to share?

I serve on the board of WNET/13 (largest public television station in the country)

I am also on the board of The American University in Cairo and The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Masters Degree from Princeton University Near East Studies Department – on whose Advisory Council I served for 25 years.

Associations
The Century Association, New York City

Other Writings

  • How Do We Get the Graduates We Want?, with Lewis C. Solmon; Praeger Press.
  • Making Schools Work, with Cheryl Fagnano; Westview Press.

Current Project

An historical novel set in the first half of the 18th century. It is about an Englishman.

Website

TheMapmakersDaughter.com

The Mapmaker’s Daughter

The Mapmaker’s Daughter

By Katherine Nouri Hughes

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