萝伦·凯特

萝伦·凯特（Lauren Kate，1981年3月21日—）是美国作家，以畅销书年轻成人小说《堕落天使》成名。她的作品已被翻译成超过30种语言，包括《娜塔莉·哈格罗夫》与纽约时报最畅销儿童图书《堕落天使》 。截至2011年4月6日，《堕落天使》于名单上出现一年4个月之久。

凯特在英国，爱尔兰，澳大利亚，荷兰，意大利，加拿大，巴西，哥伦比亚，厄瓜多尔，新加坡，马来西亚和菲律宾举办活动，宣传其作品。

生平

萝伦·凯特于达拉斯与加州温特斯市（Winters）成长，并在加州大学戴维斯分校（UC Davis）取得创意写作学位，并于该校任教。

Lauren Kate (born March 21, 1981) is an American author of adult and young adult fiction. She has published fifteen novels, one novella, and several short stories. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages, have sold more than eleven million copies worldwide, and have spent combined months on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Her titles include The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove and Fallen, which reached number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list for children's chapter books. Fallen's sequel Torment entered the NYT Best Seller list at number 1. The sequels Passion and Rapture also reached the spot of NYT Best Seller No. 1.

White Lights is Lauren Kate's fifteenth novel. It was released in the US, UK, Germany, and Holland on June 9, 2026.

Biography

Kate was raised in Dallas, Texas. At Emory College in Atlanta, she double-majored in French Literature and Creative Writing. She has a master's degree in fiction from the University of California, Davis. Between her degrees, Kate worked as an editor at HarperCollins in New York City.

Kate has stated that experience of the "Old South" in the Atlanta area (she went to college at Emory) inspired her to set Fallen in a Civil War era academy.

Kate married Jason Morphew, a poet and singer-songwriter, at the winery where Morphew worked in Esparto, CA, in 2009. The poet Joe Wenderoth officiated their wedding. Lauren and Jason have two children and live in Los Angeles.

Work

Kate's novel The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove--which imagines Lady Macbeth as a contemporary Southern high schooler--was released on November 12, 2009. Her second work, Fallen (the first in the Fallen series), was released the same year. Torment, the sequel to Fallen, released on 28 September 2010, debuted at number 1 on the New York Times Bestseller List (Fallen came in that week at number 2), remaining at that position through the week of October 17. The paperback edition of Fallen debuted at number 1 on the list, as well. The third book in the Fallen series, entitled Passion, was released on June 14, 2011. A new edition of Natalie Hargrove was also released on the same day as the paperback edition of Torment. On June 23, Passion reached number 7 on the USA Today Bestseller List, for books overall. On July 3, 2011, Passion qualified the Fallen books for the Series section of the New York Times Bestseller List; it entered the list at number 2, behind the Hunger Games books. Each of the aforementioned Fallen books has appeared atop many other countries' bestseller lists, as well.

Fallen in Love—a collection of novellas set in the Middle Ages that tell the back-stories of several of the Fallen series' main characters—was published on January 24, 2012. Rapture, the final installment of the series, was published on June 12, 2012. Unforgiven, a spin-off novel featuring the side-character Cam Briel from the series and his love Lilith, was released on November 10, 2015.

Random House released the first book of Kate's subsequent series, Teardrop, in October 2013. A prequel novella, titled Last Day of Love, was released two months later in December 2013.

Kate recently published three adult rom-coms, starting with 2022's By Any Other Name. The following two rom-coms are set in an interlocking, paranormal Los Angeles: 2024's What's in a Kiss? and 2025's The Spirit of Love.

On May 2, 2025, Kate announced that she'd been contracted to write a new trilogy of fantasy novels called White Lights. The trilogy marks Kate's return to the love between angels and mortals.

Publications

Middle grade

One True Wish (April 25, 2023)

Fallen series

Fallen (December 9, 2009) – #1 New York Times Best Seller

Torment (September 28, 2010) – #1 New York Times Best Seller

Passion (June 14, 2011) – #1 New York Times Best Seller

Fallen In Love (January 24, 2012) – New York Times Best Seller

Rapture (June 12, 2012) – #1 New York Times Best Seller

Angels In The Dark (Short Story Collection) (December 10, 2013)

Unforgiven (November 10, 2015)

Teardrop series

Teardrop (October 22, 2013) – New York Times Best Seller