Kate Ross
Wellesley High School Author: Kate Ross (1974)
After WHS, Kate graduated from Wellesley College and Yale Law School. A trial lawyer, she worked at Sullivan & Worcester (a Boston Law firm), then began her career as a novelist. She wrote four mystery books set in Regency-era England about the dandy Julian Kestrel: Cut to the Quick (winner of the Gargoyle Award for Best Historical Mystery); A Broken Vessel; Whom the Gods Love; and The Devil in Music (winner of the Agatha Award for Best Novel.
Kate died in 1998 at the age of 42, and is buried in Wellesley