Katherine Kellgren, author portrait

Katherine Kellgren

Katherine Kellgren recorded nearly 300 audiobooks, including winners of the Audie Award, the American Library Association’s Odyssey Honor, the Earphones Award, the Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award, and ForeWord Magazine’s Audiobook of the Year. She was named one of AudioFile Magazine’s Best Voices of the Year for 2008 and 2009, and in 2009 received the Audie Award for Best Solo Narration–Female, and was Booklist's 2011 Voice of Choice. She appeared onstage in London and New York City. Kellgren was a graduate of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She passed away in January 2018.

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