Author Series: Katherine Neville

2018 marks the Smithsonian Libraries’ 50th Anniversary! Watch as author Katherine Neville sends her congrats and tells us why she loves libraries.

New York Times best-selling author Katherine Neville has been dubbed “the female” Umberto Eco, Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, and Stephen Spielberg. Her work has been reviewed and has received awards in categories as diverse as Mystery, Thriller, Historic, Romance, Science Fiction as well as classical literature. Publishers Weekly described Neville’s works as having “paved the way for books like The Da Vinci Code.” In a national poll by the noted Spanish journal, El Pais, her novel, The Eight, was voted one of the top ten books of all time.