Karin Slaughter

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Karin Slaughter

Karin Slaughter grew up in a small town in South Georgia. At college Karin worked on a rape crisis hotline. She now lives in Atlanta and has a cabin in Blue Ridge that her father built for her 20 years ago. Karin feels most at home surrounded by her cats Maggie, Gracie and Dexter. 

She is the founder of the Save the Libraries project – a non-profit organisation established to support libraries and library programming. As a child she would be taken to the local library by her father. He had grown up in poverty with eight siblings. When he noticed that his youngest daughter showed an interest in reading, he took Karin to their local Jonesboro library and told her that she could read any book in the building so long as she promised to talk to him about it if she read something she didn’t understand.

Karin says: “I think this is the greatest gift my father ever gave me. Though he was not a reader himself, he understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.”

Interviewed 30 April 2022

Ten words to sum up your working life to date ...

Loooong. Well-planned. Ill-planned. Thriller. Oeuvre. Fiction. Love. Hate. Mendacity. Cats.

Nine things you can see from where you're sitting ...

Monitor. Shit I’ll Never Get Done notepad. Funny glasses. Puppet. False Witness galleys. Four books by Cecelia Ahern. Metal royal crown. Space Pen. Chloraseptic throat spray (for Zooms).

Eight minutes to prepare a meal. What's it going to be ?

Whatever restaurant can deliver fast.

Seven people you'd like to go for a drink with ...

Flannery O’Connor. Katharine Hepburn. Kathryn Hahn. Nancy Wilson. Ann Wilson. Dorothy Parker. Kate Elton, my editor, because she’ll get everyone to talk.

Six things you can't live without ...

Cats. Writing. Napping blankets. MacBook Pro. Love. Friendship.

Five favourite words ...

Snick. Confrere. Paralipsis. Onomatopoeia. Consanguineous.

Four places you'd run away to ...

The Blue Ridge Mountains. The Netherlands. New Zealand. England.

Three books you've bought recently ...

Cecilia Ahern – Lyrebird Clint Smith – How the Word is Passed   Alan Taylor – American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

Two things that make you rant ...

Incivility  Anti-Vaxxers (as opposed to Vaccine hesitant)

One thing you'd tell your teenage self ...

The great thing about not learning from your mistakes is that you’ll keep making them until you do.