Born in the UK, Kate Singleton has lived in Italy for over forty years, working as a freelance writer, editor and translator. Readers have been able to follow many of the changes that have come about in Italy in her articles published in The Sunday Times, The Wall Street Journal and in the International Herald Tribune. She is the author of "Learning from the Landscape" in Sassicaia (2000); Montalcino e Montepulciano (2001/2006); Wines of Sicily(2004), and co-author of The Golden Book of Chocolate(2008). In 2009 she was nominated Foreign Correspondent Academic by the Accademia dei Georgofili in Florence.
The first edition of Amarone. The Making of an Italian Wine Phenomenon (2012) was awarded the Cesare Pavese Prize.