Katharine Mary Saunders was an English writer, actress and journalist.
13 Facts About Kate Saunders
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Kate Saunders won the Betty Trask Award and the Costa Children's Book Award and was twice shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
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Katharine Mary Kate Saunders was born on 4 May 1960 to an Anglo Catholic family in London, the eldest of six children.
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Kate Saunders's father was public relations advocate Basil Saunders, and her mother was journalist Betty Saunders.
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Kate Saunders was educated at the Camden School for Girls.
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Kate Saunders's work included an appearance as a policewoman dated by Rodney Trotter in an Only Fools and Horses episode in 1982.
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Kate Saunders was a regular contributor to radio and television, with appearances on the Radio 4 programmes Woman's Hour, Start the Week and Kaleidoscope.
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Kate Saunders was, with Sandi Toksvig, a guest on the first episode of the long-running news quiz programme Have I Got News for You.
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Kate Saunders wrote for newspapers and magazines in the UK, including The Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph, She and Cosmopolitan.
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Kate Saunders was a contributor to the authorised Winnie-the-Pooh sequel, The Best Bear in All the World.
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Kate Saunders married Philip Wells in 1985; they had a son and later divorced.
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Kate Saunders's health declined in the years after her son's death, but she continued to write until the end of her life.
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Kate Saunders died from cancer at her home in Archway, London, on 21 April 2023, at the age of 62.