Author Bio
• Birth—May 9, 1960
• Where—Tucson, Arizona USA
• Education—BBA, University of North Texas
• Awards—Best Sportsmanship 1972, Maine’s Junior Miss 1978
• Currently—lives in Salt Lake City, Utah (where they have the world’s best snow!)
Kathryn Hurn is an American writer, best known as the creator of the fictional character Lucy Bell, a story that chronicles her life from a twenty-something who married the wrong man, to a thirty-something single mother in Dallas vying for independence, authenticity, passion and love and then at forty-eight wins the man worthy of her love.
Born into a middle-class military family, Kathryn is the eldest of Mary Catherine and Lt. Col. William P. Hurn’s five children. She credits both her parents for exemplifying and encouraging lifelong learning, creativity and fearless pursuit of dreams. She spent her early life following her father’s Air Force transfers from one end of the United States to the other. Girls Scouts and family trips to Yosemite sparked a romance with mountains that continues to this day. Educated in parochial schools in California and Nebraska until attending high school in Limestone, Maine, Kathryn went on to study Fashion Marketing at the Universities of Maine and North Texas.
Working as a merchandiser and executive assistant before she published the semi-autobiographical novel, Hell, Heaven & In-Between. She is a 30+-year fitness- and yoga-teaching veteran. She has two sons.
An avid traveler, her romantic nature and love of beautiful places take her hiking and backpacking all over the world. Passionate about art in all its forms, she devotes hours studying literature and philosophy, and when she is not writing, as much as seven hours a day painting in the Mische technique.
Hurn credits Lucy’s success to the truism that although we believe humanity progresses linearly throughout time, in an age with all our highfaluting technology and know-how, we still find being true to our selves as difficult as it always has been, as it was when Shakespeare wrote: This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.