Kate Fleming

Kate ( Kathryn ) Fleming ( born October 6, 1965; † December 14, 2006 in Seattle, Washington) was an American audiobook spokeswoman and a producer of numerous awards.

Kate Fleming was the owner of Cedar House Audio, a small company for audio products, which had been founded in 2004 by her. The Seattle (Washington, USA) based firm specializing in the implementation of literature in audiobooks, and worked with, among others Blackstone Audio Harper Audio. When in December 2006 broke the century storm over Seattle, Kate Fleming was killed by a flash flood. The onrushing waters destroyed their home in Madison Valley. Included in the rubble she died by drowning.

Kate Fleming grew up in Washington, D.C. on and closed the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from. She graduated at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky training as an actress, first went to New York, but returned soon to Washington, DC back and stood there about five years as a performer on stage. By working in the audio studio Grover Gardner she learned this medium to know better and shifted since the mid- 1990s, their activities more and more in the production of audio books, which they often discussed under the pseudonym " Anna Fields ".

In more than 200 titles, including Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates, Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh, Any title by Louise Erdrich, All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki, she amazed her listeners. Kate Fleming was something of a star among professional American audiobook speakers. The enormous range of her voice she replied in a position to bring to life all possible characters of the respective literature templates for their listeners. Some authors demanded that their works would exclusively spoken by Kate Fleming.

Kate Fleming won more than a dozen times the conferred by AudioFile magazine Earphone Award, was nominated five times for the prestigious Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction. The Audie Award is presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association for outstanding audio books and is the highest award that is awarded by the audio industry. In 2004, Kate Fleming received this award for their idea of ​​Ruth Ozekis All Over Creation.