Kate Wenner

Kate Wenner began playwriting after a thirty-year career as a print and television journalist, non-fiction author, and novelist. As a producer for ABC’s 20/20, she won fourteen major awards. Wenner is the author of Setting Fires (Scribner 2000), Dancing With Einstein (Scribner 2004), Shamba Letu: An American Girl’s Adventure in Africa (Houghton Mifflin 1970), and is the recipient of a NYS CAPS Grant for Fiction and the Harvard University Michael Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship. She is a member of the Author’s Guild, the Producers Guild of America, and the Dramatists Guild of America.