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Cate Baum | |
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| Born | 6 June 1973 Cambridgeshire, England |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | Cert Screenwriting, MA Novel Writing 2019 |
| Alma mater | UCLA, University of London, City |
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Cate Baum is an English author and book entrepreneur known for her novel Land of Hope.
Life and career
[edit]Baum was raised in the countryside of Cambridgeshire with childhood stints in Spain and France. She is of Sephardi, Calé, English, and Gibraltarian heritage. Her father was a musician and magician, and her mother was a singer. She has one sister.
After working as a performance artist for many years in London and Ibiza, she started screenwriting, studying at UCLA in Los Angeles. She then studied novel writing under Jonathan Myerson with novelist Claire Fuller as her mentor[1]. She is represented by Sabhbh Curran at Curtis Brown. Her novel, Land of Hope, was acquired by The Indigo Press in 2024, and by WF Howes as an audiobook in 2025.
She has been married twice, to the English film director Pete Eliot and to award-winning US novelist Henry Baum, with whom she founded Self-Publishing Review, a well-known international book marketing company for independent authors. She is the daughter-in-law of producer Carol Baum and screenwriter Tom Baum, and the second cousin of Sylvia Anderson, best known for creating Thunderbirds (TV series) and playing Lady Penelope. She lives in Valencia, Spain, where she hosts a literary open mic for English-speaking authors, Club Hemingway.
Bibliography
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Fuller, Claire (6 January 2025). "Hidden Gem". Claire Fuller. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
External links
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Category:English women novelists
Category:Alumni of the University of London
Category:Living people
Category:1973 births
Category:People from Cambridgeshire (before 1974)
Category:21st-century English novelists
Category:21st-century English women writers