Kit Whitfield

Kit Whitfield is an English novelist. Her first book, titled "Bareback" in the UK and "Benighted" in the US, was published by Random House in August 2006. It has subsequently been purchased by Warner Brothers for an undisclosed six-figure sum, and is currently being adapted as a film called "Benighted" by director Andrew Adamson.cite news
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Bareback/Benighted is a thriller with a whodunit structure set in an alternative world where most of the population are werewolves - although the word is not used in the story - and concerns the minority status of those who are, because of adverse conditions at birth, born with a disability that prevents them from 'furring up' on full moon nights.cite book
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title = Benighted
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title = Bareback by Kit Whitfield
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publisher = Tangled Web UK
date = 2006-08-20
url = http://www.twbooks.co.uk/reviews/reviews06/imbarebackhbk06.html
accessdate = 2006-10-31] and the author has appeared in "The Guardian" stating her opposition to genre stereotypes as an overly constrictive way of thinking about literature.cite news
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title = Kit Whitfield's Top 10 Genre-defying Novels
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publisher = Guardian Newspapers Limited
date = 2006
url = http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/top10/0,,1839749,00.html
accessdate = 2006-10-31] It has received comparisons with George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" in the "The Times" newspaper.cite news
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title = It Keeps the Wolf from the Door
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date = 2006-08-05
url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2297786.html
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Other short stories by Kit Whitfield were originally published in the Oxford and Cambridge May Anthologies, and have subsequently appeared on her website.

Whitfield has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.

References

External links

* [http://www.kitwhitfield.com/ Kit Whitfield's website]
* [http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/bareback Bareback game]
* [http://www.sffworld.com/interview/199p0.html Interview with Kit Whitfield] at [http://www.sffworld.com SFFWorld.com]