Kate Wilhelm

Kate Wilhelm was an American writer born in 1928. Kate unfortunately passed away on March 8th, 2018. +Biography Growing up as Kate Gertrude Meredith in Toledo Ohio, Kate Wilhelm, daughter to Jesse and Ann Meredith, attended high school in Louisville, Kentucky. She dipped her toe into a number of fields, working as a model for a while before becoming a sales clerk, telephone operator, switchboard operator and eventually foraying into the world of insurance as an underwriter.

The best place to start is the Constance and Charlie series, the earliest of Kate Wilhelm's multi-book series: it opens with The Gorgon Field (1986) and runs to 12 books across 1986–2012, ending with Whisper Her Name (2012). Kate Wilhelm's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Kate Wilhelm has 101 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1963 and 2022. 26 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Barbara Holloway series with 14 books — and 75 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Kate Wilhelm's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Constance and Charlie (1986–2012, 12 books) and Barbara Holloway (1991–2017, 14 books).

This guide splits Kate Wilhelm's 101 books into 2 named series and 75 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Barbara Holloway (14 books, 1991–2017); Constance and Charlie (12 books, 1986–2012).