Nearly all of the 15 Deryni books currently extant remain in print, and fans eagerly await the third novel in the Childe Morgan Trilogy, now in progress. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Trilogy, but she soon defined and established her own sub-genre of "historical fantasy" set in close parallels to our own medieval period and featuring "magic" that much resembles what some of us might call extrasensory perception. Her early work built on the popularity of J.R.R. She sold her first novel, Deryni Rising (actually, the first trilogy, The Chronicles of the Deryni) to Ballantine Books (later Del Rey) on her first submission attempt! She completed her second two novels, Deryni Checkmate and High Deryni, while completing her MA in medieval English history at UCLA and writing instructional materials for the Los Angeles Police Department. Several years later, she wrote the novella "The Lords of Sorandor," recognizable parts of which appear in Deryni Rising.) (For those who have not read Deryni Archives, Katherine had what she describes as a "very vivid dream" on October 16, 1964, after which she wrote some notes on two "3 X 5" cards. By this time she had also had the famous dream which became the Deryni Series. Her interest in science led her to medical school, also at the University of Miami, but after a year she decided she would rather write about medicine than practice it. For some years, she was convinced that her mother did not know that she read by flashlight under the covers at night.ĭuring her senior year at Coral Gables High School, Katherine was named a regional semi-finalist in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search: an accomplishment that helped her win a four-year science scholarship to the University of Miami, where she graduated with a B.S. She soon went on to read out that school library and also the local public library. By third grade, she had successfully lobbied for permission to check out books usually reserved for fifth and sixth graders, such as The Black Stallion.
Katherine did not find elementary school very challenging. She says she cannot remember a time when she could not read. On her second birthday, Katherine is told, she recited the entire poem, "Little Orphan Annie", for her grandparents without hesitation or error. Her father worked as a radar specialist for Bendix Avionics. Her mother worked in university administration, then as a legal secretary, and also taught English as a Second Language in the Peace Corps in Venezuela. Katherine Kurtz was born in Coral Gables, Florida during a hurricane on October 18.
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