(See Awards, Honors & Bestsellers.)Īs a great supporter of libraries and books, Neville was the first author ever invited onto the Advisory Board of the Smithsonian Libraries in Washington, DC, where she has served a full three terms and is now emerita. Her colorful, complex adventure/quest novels have been translated into 40 languages, have received multiple awards and honors, and have remained on bestseller lists around the world. The Washington Post called her first book, The Eight, “a feminist answer to Raiders of the Lost Ark.” Publishers Weekly predicted that The Eight was “destined to become a cult classic, ” andmore recently, credited her work as having “paved the way for books like The Da Vinci Code.”
She has been dubbed “the female” Umberto Eco, Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, and Stephen Spielberg. Neville’s groundbreaking work defies categorization. When her first book, The Eight, was published (1988) she left the computer world and became a full-time author. Between jobs, she supported herself as a busboy and waiter, fashion model, commercial photographer, and professional artist.
Feast and Sauce each received nominations for James Beard journalism awards under her direction.Katherine Neville’s 20-year data processing career, in the fields of energy and transportation, took her to live and work in seven countries on three continents, and half the states of the USA. She sold her interest in Bent Mind Creative Group, LLC, Sauce Magazine's parent company, in February of 2010. In 1999, Cat co-founded Sauce Magazine and oversaw its evolution for a decade. Louis chef Kevin Willmann as well as Media Person of the Year from the Missouri Restaurant Association. Cat was awarded Lee Enterprises President's Award for Innovation twice and won an Eddie Award in 2014 for her feature article on St. In 2015, Cat was named one of Folio:'s Top Women in Media in the Entrepreneur category. Cat has won eight Mid-America Emmy Awards. Cat joined Lee Enterprises in 2010 to develop Feast, which debuted in August 2010 the regional magazine has a circulation of 150,000. Cat is also publisher of Feast Magazine and producer and host of Feast TV, which aired on public television stations across Missouri and southern Illinois for seven seasons. The live program is followed by a pop-up Makers Market that features vendors offering samples and selling their wares on site. As a companion to the series, Cat hosts immersive events across the country - Meet the Makers brings makers, farmers and chefs from up on stage for interviews and demos. The show explores the maker movement from coast to coast and is distributed through American Public Television. Catherine (Cat) Neville is the Emmy-winning producer and host of tasteMAKERS, a food-focused series that debuted on public television stations nationwide in October 2018.
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