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Kate Watterson

American novelist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ18157331 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kate Watterson is an author of suspense and romance novels.

Watterson's Ellie MacIntosh series is about a Wisconsin homicide detective. She has also released short stories as e-books that bridge the gaps between the novels.

Watterson has also written romantic suspense, including her Sexual Studies books.

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“Kate Watterson” enters the record as american novelist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kate, Watterson and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 46-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kate, Watterson and American.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18157331. VIAF identifies the subject as 295052831. The Library of Congress control number is no2013004108. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kate Watterson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.