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Katherine Cecil Thurston
1875–1911
An Irish novelist with a gift for suspense, she became an early 20th-century bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic. Her most famous book, published in Britain as John Chilcote, M.P. and in the United States as The Masquerader, helped make her name.
4 Audiobooks
The Masquerader
by Katherine Cecil Thurston
The Gambler: A Novel
by Katherine Cecil Thurston
The Mystics: A Novel
by Katherine Cecil Thurston
Max
by Katherine Cecil Thurston
About the author
Born in County Cork, Katherine Cecil Thurston was an Irish novelist who wrote under the name Katherine Cecil Thurston. Reliable sources agree that she was educated privately and came from a prominent Cork family; her father, Paul Madden, was a banker and served as lord mayor of Cork.
She found wide success in the early 1900s, especially with her political thriller John Chilcote, M.P.—published in the United States as The Masquerader. Her novels were popular in both Britain and America, and works including The Gambler and Max also became well known.
Some sources differ on whether she was born in 1874 or 1875, but they agree that she died on September 5, 1911, still relatively young. Her reputation rests on fast-moving, dramatic fiction that brought politics, identity, and social pressure into the world of popular Edwardian storytelling.