Ruth Hogan

Hogan was born in Bedford, and her mother worked in a bookshop. She studied English and drama at Goldsmiths College and worked in human resources in local government for 10 years before being injured in a car crash which left her unable to work full time. Cancer in 2012 led to her writing while sleepless through chemotherapy, and the result was her first published work, The Keeper of Lost Things.{{cite web |title=Keeper of Lost Things (Hogan) - Author Bio |url=https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/10964-keeper-of-lost-things-hogan?start=1 |website=www.litlovers.com |access-date=27 December 2022}}{{cite web |title=About Ruth Hogan |url=https://ruthhogan.co.uk/landing-page/ruth-hogan/about-ruth-hogan/ |website=Hachette UK |access-date=27 December 2022 |date=23 March 2021}}

The reviewer in Kirkus Reviews described Hogan's first novel, The Keeper of Lost Things, as "whimsical" and said that "Readers looking for some undemanding, old-fashioned storytelling with a sprinkling of magic will find it here.{{cite news |title=The Keeper of Lost Things |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ruth-hogan/the-keeper-of-lost-things/ |access-date=27 December 2022 |work=Kirkus Reviews |date=1 February 2017 |language=en}}" The Guardian's reviewer described her second novel, The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes as "warm and wise", saying that "Her passages on loss are vivid and visceral",{{cite news |last1=Beckerman |first1=Hannah |title=The Lido; The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes review – the power of unlikely friendships |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/27/the-lido-libby-page-wisdom-sally-red-shoes-ruth-hogan |access-date=27 December 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=27 May 2018 |language=en}} and, writing of her third novel Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel , said "Hogan has a reputation for eccentric characters, hints of the supernatural and the power of unexpected friendships. Here, she combines all these with a moving exploration of the complex relationship between mothers and daughters."{{cite news |last1=Beckerman |first1=Hannah |title=In brief: Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel; Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust; With the End in Mind – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/03/ruth-hogan-heidi-fried-kathryn-mannix-review |access-date=27 December 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=3 February 2019 |language=en}} Publishers Weekly{{'}}s reviewer called her fourth novel "engrossing" and said it had "[the] trappings of a modern fairy tale".{{cite news |title=The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova by Ruth Hogan |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780063075436 |access-date=27 December 2022 |work=www.publishersweekly.com |date=}}

Hogan's books have been published in many foreign translations such as Le gardien des choses perdus (French, title an exact translation of The Keeper of Lost Things) and Vielleicht Tanzen Wir Morgen (German, "Perhaps we will dance tomorrow", translation of The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes).{{cite web |title=Ruth Hogan Foreign Editions |url=https://ruthhogan.co.uk/landing-page/ruth-hogan/ruth-hogan-foreign-editions/ |website=Hachette UK |access-date=27 December 2022 |date=23 April 2021}}

Hogan has a publishing company named Tilbury Bean Books, named after her pet dog (also known as "Tilly"), which died before her first book was published.{{cite web |title=Guest Post: The Seeker of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan |url=https://bookaholicconfessions.wordpress.com/2017/01/29/guest-post-the-seeker-of-lost-things-by-ruth-hogan/ |website=Bookaholic Confessions |access-date=28 December 2022 |language=en |date=29 January 2017}}{{cite web |title=Tilbury Bean Books Limited |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09822724/more |website= |publisher=Companies House UK |access-date=28 December 2022 |language=en}}

The Keeper of Lost Things was shortlisted in the "popular fiction" category for the 2017 Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards (won that year by Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine).{{cite web |title=Books Are My Bag Readers Awards: Shortlist Revealed |url=https://www.booksellers.org.uk/industryinfo/industryinfo/latestnews/Books-Are-My-Bag-Readers-Awards-Shortlist-Reveale |website=The Booksellers Association of the United Kingdom & Ireland Limited |access-date=27 December 2022 |date=6 October 2017}}

Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel won the Fantasy Romantic Novel Award in the 2020 Romantic Novelists' Association Awards.{{cite web |title=Romantic Novel Award Winners 2020 |url=https://romanticnovelistsassociation.org/news_article/romantic-novel-award-winners-2020/ |publisher=Romantic Novelists Association |access-date=28 December 2022}}

• {{cite book |last1=Hogan |first1=Ruth |title=The Keeper of Lost Things |date=2017 |publisher=Two Roads |location=London |isbn=9781473635463}}
• {{cite book |last1=Hogan |first1=Ruth |title=The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes |date=2018 |publisher=Two Roads |location=London |isbn=9781473669017}}
• {{cite book |last1=Hogan |first1=Ruth |title=Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel |date=2019 |publisher=Two Roads |location=London |isbn= 9781473669062}}
• {{cite book |last1=Hogan |first1=Ruth |title=Madame Burova |date=2021 |publisher=Two Roads |location=London |isbn=9781529373349}}

::Published in United States as The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova {{ISBN|978-0063075436}}

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• {{official website|https://ruthhogan.co.uk/}}
• [https://thenerddaily.com/ruth-hogan-author-interview/ Interview]
• [https://www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/ruth-hogan-on-infusing-personal-interests-in-fiction Interview about Madame Burova]

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Category:1961 births

Category:Living people

Category:Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London

Category:Writers from Bedford

Category:English women novelists

Category:21st-century English novelists

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