Kathryn Lilley

Kathryn Ellen Lilley (born April 22, 1956) is an American author and former broadcast journalist.

Kathryn was born in Washington, DC, the daughter of Dr. Arthur Edward Lilley, a Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics at Harvard University, and Margaret Evelyn McPherson Ezell, a retired corporate librarian. She was raised initially in Connecticut and South Carolina, and then transferred to a high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated from Wellesley College as a Wellesley Scholar, and she later graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Lilley began her career working as a television reporter in Columbia, South Carolina, and then shifted to writing fiction. She wrote four Young Adult mysteries as a contract writer for the Nancy Drew series under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.

Lilley has written the first book in an adult mystery series called The Fat City Mysteries: the first book in the series, "Dying to be Thin" (2007), features investigative journalist Kate Gallagher, an overweight woman who is constantly fighting a weight problem that threatens her on camera career. The Fat City Mysteris are published by Signet/Obsidian, a division of NAL/Penguin Group.

She lives in Hermosa Beach, California.