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Katia Bassett was born in a small town in Russia. At the age of ten, Katia wrote a science fiction novel about a group of college students fighting off an invasion of purple-faced aliens. Her parents smiled kindly and advised Katia to get her head out of the clouds. Thus, her path as an aspiring writer remained obscured for the time being. She came to the United States to pursue undergraduate, and then graduate studies in cancer research. Katia crafted the plot of her first novel, A Mouthful of Ashes, while writing her doctoral dissertation. To this day, she notes that her most exciting ideas find her when she has the least time to act on them.
favourite books
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Contact by Carl Sagan
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Amphibian by Alexander Beliaev
Phantom by Susan Kay
The Kukotsky Case by Ludmila Ulitskaya
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
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